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Director James Fargo ('Forced Vengeance', 'Every Which Way But Loose', 'Caravans' and 'A Game for Vultures') has appeared in some of Eastwood's early films as assistant director, and here he paces it well-enough and let's the foundation play out more like an expansive low-key action fling filled with the constant buddy routines (as Harry is paired up with a young green-horn female detective fidgety played by Tyne Daly.
So they might have sponsored MM, threw in a cheap Comedian team : Pen & Teller (Rush Limbough was probably too expansive)and some other cheerleaders to make it run.
Sure we get Spider-man, Wolverine, Venom, Daredevil and more to choose from, however the marvel universe is so expansive you could have had twice the number of marvel characters and still had the three they choose to knock out of action early.
Then you can praise the movie to high heaven, feel you have done your penance, and content yourself with the ingenuity of your expansive insights.
The plot has become more expansive for this update, but the filmmakers have still managed to keep it tight so that the plot is focused mainly on the characters as opposed to the actual crime.
When they fooled an straight-arrow FBI Agent (Woody Harrelson) from stealing, one of the most expansive Diamond in the world.
Reformists also take an expansive view of religious law (Sharia), incorporating ideas of public welfare within a continually developing legislative process.
As I argue in my new book The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era, the burden that these obligations will impose on Americans – in the form of higher taxes and fewer benefits – will weaken public support for the expansive international role that the United States has played since World War II.
They would help to ensure that, even in an era of retrenchment in American foreign policy, the world would continue to enjoy the most important benefits of the expansive foreign policy that the US can no longer afford.
In fact, most of the world believes that Germany should adopt a more expansive fiscal policy.
With a more expansive and predictable election cycle, India’s leaders would be able to move beyond the unpleasant business of political contention, and settle down to governance.
The Fed, its critics complain, has used its expansive powers to engage in a range of unprecedented interventions that have propped up large financial institutions.
Japan was able to pass the new Anti-Terrorist law without revising the Constitution, but the limits of expansive Constitutional interpretation may one day be reached.
And then there is the development of a hyper-connected world, in which economic and social connections are expansive, deep, and instantaneous.
I would prefer a more expansive list than the focus on the Working Time Directive proposed by British Prime Minister David Cameron.
In addition to becoming bolder and more expansive, it has become increasingly intertwined with fiscal policy.
They sense that the American economy has out-performed the Western European economies largely because of its less expansive government.
The ECB’s expansive “whatever it takes” guarantee may indeed be enough to help finance greater short-term stimulus than is currently being allowed; but the ECB’s guarantee will not solve long-run sustainability problems.
And ISIS has proven adept at doing just that, drawing fighters from all over the world who are willing to die for its cause – to create an expansive caliphate – and inspiring many more to carry out attacks in their home countries.
Define them in an expansive fashion and you increase government intervention.
At the same time, an expansive reform effort cannot be advanced by economic decisions alone.
China's plans for the Silk Road combine economic, diplomatic, energy, and security objectives in an effort to create an expansive network of linked facilities to boost trade, aid strategic penetration, and permit an increasingly potent and active submarine force to play an expanded role.
Labor in a World of Financial CapitalismThe traditional hostility between labor unions and the world of finance should not obscure their common interest in using financial tools in an expansive and creative way.
The United States, in particular, put enormous pressure on Japan to take expansive policy measures to relieve the pressure on the international system.
We have gone from managerial to stockowner capitalism, from economies with large doses of state direction to far more deregulated markets, from the active and expansive social policies of the 1960s’ and 1970’s to a world in which such spending is constantly shrinking.
An expansive monetary policy is partly to blame, but the real problem is an institutional setting that favors bullish sentiment.
Unless a big recovery of the French economy occurs, with a significant fall in the unemployment rate, any incoming French socialist government would be under pressure to launch an expansive budgetary policy, which might be incompatible with monetary union in Europe.
To work smoothly, expansive macroeconomic policies require compatible microeconomic rules.
So, when a European country reverses course to reduce welfare dependency and restore work incentives, it is worth noting – especially when that country is the Netherlands, which built one of the world’s most expansive welfare states in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The old Hindu boasts of expansive tolerance and acceptance of difference – the very tenets that underlie India’s remarkable diversity – are wearing thin these days.
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