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I have to say I find it difficult to join in the chorus of 'masterpiece' preceding this comment but that is not to dismiss it out of hand.
Penn gave a delicate yet fierce performance particularly at the end, when she lashes out at Will for all the preceding predicaments that he had caused.
I will not write a lot about the story since so much is already said in the preceding comments.
I read the 3 preceding reviews here at the IMDB after seeing the film and I'll say that the gross mediocrity of this film is summed up with perfection by those reviewers.
Written and directed by people who should've known better, "Doctors' Wives" was considered pretty heavy stuff in its day (the first time it ran on network TV, there was a "parental discretion" warning preceding the movie), but its 'raciness' is now rather quaint.
The anime asks me were women oppressed in the preceding generation?
Since assumptive reviewers' good part favorably sees the past and as the past is "better" than the present they have given several credit to the preceding episodes being still the last episode more explosive and spectacular.
the preceding ninety minutes do nothing to build suspense, they are merely boring.
"Aladdin: The Return of Jafar" is one of them, preceding with "Aladdin and the King of Thieves".
This film has shown me that Kurosawa has tried and excelled in positively every genre imaginable while preceding others in each field.
Improvements in the quality of developing countries’ economic policies in the decade preceding the global financial crisis – reflected in the broad scope available to them in responding to it – reinforced this optimism.
In the last three months of 2008 alone, net US-asset purchases topped $500 billion dollars – three times more than what was purchased in the preceding nine months.
That question has been haunting economists ever since, as the recognition has slowly taken hold that, in the supposed “golden age” preceding the crisis, they were blind not only to the potential consequences of failure – but also to the true cost of “success.”
And more than 50% of Iran’s total oil revenues during the preceding century were earned during Ahmadinejad’s eight years in office.
While North Korea had done much over the preceding years to warrant a more critical eye, in retrospect these policies set back prospects for peace and stability in the region.
Moreover, subsequent cyclical tightening was always less aggressive than the preceding easing.
As each preceding generation of rulers cashes in its illicit gains from holding power, the successors are motivated by both the desire to loot even more and the fear that there may not be much left by the time they get their turn at the trough.
Inspired by Friedman’s ideas, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and many other government leaders began to dismantle the government restrictions and regulations that had been built up over the preceding decades.
One would expect that the shock from the financial crisis should be comparable for the United States and the eurozone, given that they are of similar size, exhibit a similar degree of internal diversity, and experienced a similar increase in house prices (on average) in the years preceding the bust.
In particular, they should renounce the much-touted December 8 “Act IV” of the movement, brewing on Facebook since Saturday evening, which everyone expects to be more violent, destructive, and tragic than the preceding installments.
The decade preceding the uprising was a period of deepening rapprochement, with Turkey investing heavily in Syria.
That reversal is one of the great under-reported stories of 2011 (and of the preceding two years), and the numbers are startling.
The Great Deflation poses a great question: can humanity design and implement a new, technologically advanced, “green” Bretton Woods – a system that makes our planet ecologically and economically sustainable – without the mass pain and destruction preceding the original Bretton Woods?
More obviously than anything preceding it, the single currency was a touchstone of willingness to proceed toward political union.
The share of US students going on to higher education after secondary school is now 67%, up 10% over the preceding decade.
Late in the preceding week, Treasury Secretary James Baker made some remarks that were interpreted as a threat to devalue the dollar.
The decade preceding the global financial crisis was in many ways the best ever for the developing world.
The answer is that, even with jobs and credit now plentiful, workers retain the memory of the preceding 20 years of lay-offs, deregulation, and restructuring.
To be sure, Fed officials did not do a great job of managing expectations in the weeks preceding their September policy meeting.
Predictably, some US industrial lobbies are again complaining that Japan is manipulating its currency, even though the yen’s real depreciation since 2012 has merely reversed the preceding growth-killing real appreciation.
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