Word: specialize
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...long list of items that might have military applications. In the absence of such a classification, the Commerce Department is currently considering "on a case-by-case basis" 63 applications for licenses to export suspect equipment. The department did belatedly drop Iraq from the itinerary of a special aerospace trade mission by American firms to the Middle East, but the Administration's stance is still ambivalent...
...written in 1979, name of Total Recall.) Then, in these days of multinational superproductions, you want it to star an Austrian, be directed by a Dutchman, and cost about $60 million. (Total Recall, a Paul Verhoeven film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.) You want it to boast elaborate sets and gadgety special effects. (TR created a Martian colony on a Mexican soundstage.) You want it to blend science fiction, action adventure and suspense. (TR filches blithely from Star Wars and Blade Runner, from RoboCop and Hitchcock films.) You want it to have plenty of cartoon mayhem for the ^ blood brigade. (TR meets...
Even soup kitchens are as much a safety net as a final refuge for the down- and-out. Ptasinska, for example, has just borrowed nearly $1,000 from a privately financed special fund to set up a small business ironing sheets for hospitals and other institutions. She is counting on earning $300 in a good month, enough to make repayments and help support her family...
...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...
Funding is still comparatively woefully low for women's programs, mostly because of a lack of "Friends" groups that keep the men's teams well-funded for special trips and events. When he resigned from the position of Director of Athletics one year ago, Jack Reardon called this problem the biggest one facing the athletic department...