Word: role
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Least Protective Protectionism Actors Equity nearly saved one job for an Asian-American actor at the expense of 29 others. When the union balked at letting an English actor repeat his role as an Asian character for the Broadway run of Miss Saigon, the producer threatened to cancel. Equity saw the light, but is now fighting the producer's pick for female lead...
...dramatic demonstration of U.S.-Soviet cooperation, Shevardnadze and Baker stood shoulder to shoulder last August in Moscow and declared that Iraq must pull out of Kuwait unconditionally. Shevardnadze was always the Kremlin's strongest advocate of closer relations with Washington, so his departure creates doubts about the role the U.S. will now play in Moscow's "new thinking" in foreign affairs. Gorbachev has issued assurances that Soviet foreign policy will not change, but without Shevardnadze it will have to -- if only in pace and vigor -- as a new minister learns the ropes...
...Someone once asked me whether, if Gorbachev or my modest self had not appeared at the time we did, the changes that have taken place in recent years would have been possible. I do not underestimate the role of the individual in history. But he is often not the determining factor in events. An individual's stature can only be measured by how correctly he has read the trends of the moment...
...Cold Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who is appealing a six-month prison sentence for his role in Iran-contra, is soliciting donations to help fight his "liberal accusers." He has attached to each letter a dead leaf symbolizing the "winter that . . . freezes my spirit and numbs my heart. As time slips away . . . I desperately need your...
...Iraqi missile attack, it is largely owing to their faith in the air force, the elite military branch. Last week that trust was deeply shaken when air force Brigadier General Rami Dotan, former chief of logistics and Israel's leading expert on aircraft engines, started talking about his role in the biggest bribery scandal ever to rock the defense establishment...