Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This incident is fast (it takes place in a couple of pages), and the book never significantly deals with the aftermath of the accident, so it seems to be just another contrived misfortune in a long string. Jeremy is the Charlie Brown of modern adolescent fiction. By the time Jeremy...
Since Wyoming had not elected a Democrat to Congress since 1976, a Thomas defeat would have been especially painful for the G.O.P. The high symbolic stakes made for a vituperative campaign. Thomas' supporters spread a false rumor that his Democratic opponent, State Senator John Vinich, had filed a falsified report...
Clemmons' cemetery humor keeps grief and the black dog at bay. His wife Phoebe died in a traffic accident and left him with three children to raise. Margy is a full-figured twelve-year-old with well-developed defenses against rutting boys. Younger Ruthann has a scholarly bent but is...
Since the Exxon Valdez accident, gas prices have increased by an average of 10 percent nationally, while the Pacific Northwest saw surges as high as 25 percent in less than a month, said Marla Rae, executive assistant to Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer.
Exxon issued a statement calling the boycott unjust, and added: "Exxon believes in the basic fairness of the American people and is confident that they will see Exxon's employees, dealers and owners as victims of human error, not as an institution that should be discriminated against for an accident...