Ten years ago on March 24, 1989, 11.2 million gallons of oil spilt into Alaska's Prince William Sound after Captain Joseph Hazelwood skippered the Exxon Valdez onto Bligh Reef.

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So he moved to Singapore in 1984 to start Petra Foods with his two younger brothers, Joseph and William, and began distributing Western and Japanese brands in countries like Singapore and Thailand.

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Corporal Jonathan Horne and Riflemen William Aldridge, James Backhouse and Joseph Murphy were rescuing comrades from an explosion when they were killed in a second blast.

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Most are women under financial pressure, and some come from privileged backgrounds: Past relief recipients include wives of former San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and Levittown developer William Levitt.

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The Age of Wonder details the work of people like Joseph Banks, Humphry Davy and William Herschel who transformed the way we view the world.

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Blank, Joseph Blasi, Douglas Kruse, Karen Lynn-Dyson and William A. Niskanen.

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Some first-rate screen heavies further enhance the drama, notably the Maltese actor Joseph Calleia as the gambling boss Nick Varna and the mooselike William Bendix as his sadistic muscle, Jeff.

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The cast, uniformly superb, includes Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Hal Holbrook as Lincoln adviser Preston Blair, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn as William Seward and James Spader as political operative W.N.

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