Word: five
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...some seem to be badly overdoing it. Mobil officials said last week that the company will no longer tout its Hefty trash bags as "degradable" because of "mounting confusion" over just what the label means. Mobil was taking a hint. The attorneys general of California, New York, Texas and five other states have launched a joint investigation to determine whether claims like Mobil's constitute deceptive advertising...
Lynch moved to Los Angeles in 1970 and spent five years making Eraserhead. The film became a cult hit and led to his first mainstream film, The Elephant Man. Lynch's next project, the big-budget sci-fi movie Dune, was a critical and commercial disaster, but Blue Velvet brought him widespread critical / acclaim. A couple of aborted projects later (including a script for Steve Martin called One Saliva Bubble), Lynch is finishing a new film, Wild at Heart, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern...
There is another legacy as well. Having been exposed to about five times the acceptable level of radiation, Kostin is constantly tired and sometimes has trouble walking. He has been hospitalized three times for radiation poisoning. His 16-year-old son Nikolai fears for his father's health and has pleaded with him not to go back to Chernobyl, but Kostin feels compelled. "This is the only record of what happened there," he says. "I have to carry...
...arrested and deported to Baghdad. Latif, ostensibly an official with the state-owned Iraqi Airways, was believed to be the head of Iraq's intelligence network in Britain. The next day, the U.S. district court in San Diego unsealed an indictment that charged two British-based companies and five people, among them Daghir and Speckman, with conspiracy to export defense articles...
...When you were asked whether the money you contributed to the so-called Keating Five -- Senators Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, Donald Reigle, John Glenn and John McCain -- influenced them to help you, you said, "I certainly hope...