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...increasingly willing to toot their own horns. In the unaccustomed clangor of competition, the bonds of collegiality that held a firm together have withered. "If you're going to exist in this competitive environment," says Boston Attorney Richard Csaplar of the 90-lawyer Csaplar & Bok, "you've got to root out less productive seniors...
...course, some of the Big, Serious Oscar-winners won fair and square. "The Killing Fields" and "Platoon" did justice to their subject matter. They were also exciting and entertaining. Every year, those of us in living room seats will root for other exciting, entertaining movies. And every year, we'll be disappointed. It just doesn't seem fair that the Best Picture Award so frequently goes not to the best movie, but to the best movie with a "relevant" topic...
...want to create something that moves fast and grabs people's attention," Crane said. "The root idea is to popularize the reading of students' creations through an easy and available medium...
...Guatemala accord, but the message is not always clear. FORWARD WITH THE FRONT, shouts the party's official 1987 slogan from billboards and walls around Managua. HERE NO ONE SURRENDERS. The government has in fact surrendered some ground since signing the peace agreement, but the real issues at the root of the conflict have not been addressed. Nicaragua is at war with itself, as it has been before in a history as violent as the tropical storms that sweep across the isthmus. It is not just a war in the mountains between guerrillas and soldiers, but a much larger struggle...
...wonder, then, that stock investors have been nervous. Whatever the precise mix of emotions and events that triggered last week's collapse -- and to establish that mix would require probing into millions of minds around the world -- its root cause was a dim but accurate perception that U.S. prosperity was not sustainable with present policy. And with Congress and the President perpetually wrangling over the most modest proposals to reduce the budget deficit, they could see no sign that policy was about to change...