Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Qwest/Reprise), packaged with the book, which represents the first-ever compilation of Jones' polymorphous music, ranging from jazz to soul, pop to funk, performed by talents as various as Sarah Vaughan and James Ingram. The movie, the book and the CD, all produced and coordinated by Courtney Sale Ross, offer no definitive portrait. But they do provide a vivid personality sketch in bold -- and, in the film, often demanding and dazzling -- strokes of a man who's written and played fine music, produced films (The Color Purple) and records (Michael Jackson's Thriller) and generally become an immutable force...
...character: rural and mostly nonunion. The Japanese are eager to hire young former farmworkers who appreciate the relatively high-paying auto jobs. (Black organizations have accused the Japanese of putting their plants in rural areas to avoid hiring minority workers.) In addition, many states were eager to offer tax and infrastructure incentives to attract new industry to the region, which suffered heavily during the 1981-82 recession. Today it hums with the sound of new cars starting...
...relationship with the producing countries that will encourage them to ask the majors to come in and drill. Look at Vietnam. It's a hot area. Other multinationals are in there, but American companies can't do business there yet. In exchange for permission to drill, we can offer our expertise to a lot of undeveloped countries in extracting their big mineral reserves...
...heartland as well: the show began life on a Minneapolis UHF station before being picked up last November by cable's Comedy Channel. Crummy old movies (Rocketship X-M, The Corpse Vanishes) are unspooled in their entirety, while three characters -- one human being and two gabby robots -- offer wisecracking commentary at the bottom of the screen...
...departure from Washington for a two-month adjournment, Congress was looking for a firmer pledge that the Administration would not go to war as soon as the legislators left town. The next day, at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Representative Gerry Studds asked Baker if he could offer assurances that the U.S. would not attack Saddam Hussein's forces without consulting Congress. "No," said Baker. Studds then observed that if he were a soldier, "I think I would put my helmet on." Baker replied, with a smile, "I think their helmets...