Word: garrison
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...writer-director whose only previous feature was the low-budget love story Heavy but who manages the complex story and big-name cast with a veteran's assurance. Mangold grew up in a blue-collar town near West Point, up the Hudson from the film's fictional Garrison, N.J. It was filled with "cops and firemen who commuted to the city. They saw the suburbs as a new frontier where you could build a '50s-style American dream. I thought about settlers--the sense of starting again, which is the basis of the Western...
...government and demanding freedom of speech. Such protests may become more difficult starting Thursday, when all demonstrators must obtain a permit from local authorities before assembling. In an attempt to further calm fears of a crackdown, the Chinese leadership has promised Hong Kong citizens that soldiers assigned to garrison duty will be forbidden by law from involvement in Hong Kong's affairs and will not appear on the streets in armed vehicles. First impressions of the new military forces seemed to support Beijing's promise. The first wave arrived waving to crowds with few if any weapons in sight. Beijing...
...health court, the American Lung Association reacted loudly. It opposes any limits on individual lawsuits or class actions, and expressed particular skepticism about the settlement's prohibitions on youth-oriented advertising. "The ability of the tobacco industry to reinvent itself and circumvent such restrictions," said Lung Association CEO John Garrison, "is remarkable...
...that American Medical Association, however, members of the American Lung Association are lobbying hard against a settlement, calling it a bailout for big tobacco: "The tobacco industry has never demonstrated an ability to negotiate in good faith or live up to its promises,'' said association chief executive John Garrison. As the industry hastens to reach a settlement, pressure to curb and punish its practices continues to mount: on Wednesday, even as the FTC charged R.J. Reynolds with unfair advertising practices, charging that its Joe Camel campaign targets children, the state of Florida decided to dump $825 million worth of tobacco...
...William Lloyd Garrison, famed abolitionist and editor of the influential abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society here, according to the Guide...