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This is a looming war between North and South, between two world, two sets of ideals and likes.
A very small company, Night Eyes Security, composed of two Griffith brothers, is tasked with guarding the Beverly Hills estate of a British pop musician, Brian Walker, and his wife Nikki (Tanya Roberts) but after she discovers her husband making the grade with a young woman during a party in their home, Mrs. Walker files for divorce, following which Mr. Walker hires Night Eyes to supposedly protect his soon-to-be former wife at their Malibu residence, although his true purpose is to obtain damning video tapes from surveillance cameras that he hopes will record Nikki's own sexual misconduct, thereby crystallizing his courtroom defense for their looming civil trial.
Maybe she had a big house payment looming...I can't say.
Also, the monster is kinda cool, a looming man in dark and clawed suit creation which looks pretty solid in an Alien rip off vein.
Story is set in the late 1930's in Ferrara, Italy with the impending war looming on the horizon.
His laconic Aussie is frightening from his first entry into this two-hander, and he ably sustains that looming, brooding character right through to the end of the film.
In one scene, we actually see him looming over his Montréal neighborhood like Gulliver in the Land of Lilliput.
A nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, WWIII looming on the horizon, and it all comes down to one man, Jack Bauer (Sutherland), to save the day.
Moreover, the major emerging-market countries, which steered successfully through the storms of 2008 and 2009, may not cope as well with the problems looming on the horizon.
The "employment pact" concluded at the beginning of the year between the government and employee and employer organizations, indeed, was scuttled when Chancellor Kohl unilaterally decreed reductions in social spending on the order of DM50 billion so as to meet a looming budget crunch and prepare the ground for meeting the conditions for emu membership.
As Patrick Graichen, Agora’s executive director, points out, most forecasts of the world’s future energy supply fail to take into account solar power’s looming victory over its fossil-fuel competitors.
Indeed, in the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States, widespread popular movements against rising inequality and elite greed are becoming highly salient issues in looming national elections.
Maybe not for long, though, with the European Monetary Union (EMU) looming on the horizon.
That program will help Pakistan confront its looming balance-of-payments crisis; but it will also drain the Chinese government’s coffers at a time when trade protectionism threatens their replenishment.
Given this looming threat, it is becoming increasingly clear that staying out of the Syrian mess may not be an acceptable choice for countries that have an interest in a calmer and more democratic Middle East.
But, even if the “Young General” or his aunt turn out not to be unhinged megalomaniacs, the looming changeover opens a new era of uncertainty, particularly given North Korea’s economic woes.
The Power of the PrizeVIENNA – The world faces two looming, interconnected energy challenges: how to provide reliable access to modern energy services to the one in five people worldwide who do not have it, while minimizing the damaging impact of climate change by reducing carbon emissions.
The other looming danger is a growth crisis – a threat that has become increasingly serious.
This US-Chinese tandem will run far from smoothly, and will do little but ameliorate crises and periods of serious economic and political confrontation, like that which is currently looming over the bilateral trade imbalance.
It is less able, however, to withstand looming budget cuts.
Harsh immigration policies and the looming specter of Brexit are repelling foreign professionals.
Small wonder, then, that so many Poles feel so depressed about the looming elections.
On November 2, public-health stakeholders, including representatives of business, civil society, and international aid organizations, gathered in Bali, Indonesia, to lay the groundwork for a global campaign to tackle the looming co-epidemic of TB and diabetes – the first-ever health summit specifically focused on a response to the twin scourge.
The Bali summit highlighted the indispensable opportunity we have to take preemptive action against a looming health-care crisis.
But the law’s looming enactment underscores the consequences of Western passivity in the face of Poland’s constitutional crisis.
India’s American RelationsNEW DELHI – With America’s presidential election looming, perhaps its most striking aspect from an Indian point of view is that no one in New Delhi is unduly concerned about the outcome.
Policymakers may view the continent’s looming demographic implosion – which soon will be compounded by the baby-boom generation’s exit into retirement – as a distant event that can be addressed later.
Another looming threat is a scenario in which the Assad regime’s stockpiles of missiles and chemical weapons fall into – or are actually transferred to – the wrong hands.
There may be a silver lining to this infuriating story: the recent investigation that exposed Exxon’s deceit could end up catalyzing the action needed to address the looming climate crisis.
The third, comprising perhaps the largest camp, is to retreat below deck and wring one’s hands, bemoaning the expulsion from paradise and fearful of a looming apocalypse.
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