Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...direct the new film, Kershner, 57, drives the action at something approaching hyperspeed. At times he goes too fast. The Empire moves so quickly through its two hours that some of the plot lines blur. In the city in the clouds, for instance, Threepio blunders into a group of Imperial storm troopers. But the troopers are never seen, and only later, when the tape of Threepio's last words is automatically played back, does the audience realize what has happened to him. At the film's end, Luke and Leia suddenly find themselves safe aboard a rebel flagship...
...George Lucas' fondest images is this: a group of youngsters sitting around, their mouths open in wonder and suspense, as they hear the story of Ulysses. The adventures of Luke Skywalker bear only a superficial resem lance to the quest of Homer's "kingly man," but both draw from the same deep wells of mythology, the unconscious themes that have always dominated history on the planet...
...lost its grip. A public increasingly concerned about job security has begun to pull back at the check-out counter. Installment debt rose by only $1.4 billion in March, a 38% drop from the February rate; the consumer confidence index of the Conference Board, a Manhattan-based business study group, reached its lowest level since the 1974-75 recession...
Jack Carlson, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, says that the largest group of borrowers deserted the home-buying market when rates went above 14% and will not return until interest goes back below that level. Currently, mortgage money costs approximately 15% across the country...
...last month, a group of 94 unaffiliated dealers calling themselves Ohio Independents for Survival filed a complaint with DOE'S Office of Hearings and Appeals. After a speedy review, the department ordered Sohio to raise its prices 100 per gal. to more nearly equal the prices charged by the independents. Top White House officials, worried about the impact the ruling might have on Ohio voters in that state's June 3 presidential primary, expressed their displeasure to DOE. The department then quickly overruled the Office of Hearings and Appeals decision and reversed the reversal. It is now considering...