Anne Archer
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Based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboiler starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. When his mentor Admiral James Greer becomes ill, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Director of Intelligence. He now must investigate the murder of one of the President’s friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels.
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Connor Mead is the kind of guy who dumps three girlfriends -- at one time and by teleconference. So when he goes home to attend his brother's wedding, he has a singular goal in mind: score with the only bridesmaid he has somehow managed to miss. But the ghost of his departed Uncle Wayne -- who taught him to love 'em and then leave 'em -- has another goal in mind: restore Connor's lost faith in true love. This will be a tough assignment, one that will...
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An American special agent embarks on a mission to recover vital material for the United States' defense, believed to be contained in the sunken ship Titanic. The ship is too deep for divers so it must be raised, in absolute secrecy. But the extreme rigors of the climate, deadly interference from a rival nation and the need to invent new technology hamper the mission.
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Giving people straight welfare would actually shrink the state, since, when welfare is taken away from people who need it, fake jobs have to be manufactured for those same people. Probation officer jobs and intake coordinator jobs have to be "dummied up" as a way of funneling still-needed welfare dollars to them.
5) Halcyon Days
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Senator Eddie Bowman cannot see the point of invading a miniscule Caribbean island to rescue a bunch of overly tanned medical students. But as the 1983 invasion of Grenada gets underway, the Senator finds himself at odds with a mysterious foreign-policy specialist who cultivates roses, the Presidents's sexy new speechwriter-and his own son.