Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Traders said there were increasing signs that confidence was returning to Wall Street in the aftermath of last week's historic plunge, although many cautioned the market could resume its downward trek...
Miami Herald Police Reporter Edna Buchanan's graphic account of the McDuffie case and its aftermath is buried in The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat, to be published next month (Random House; 288 pages; $17.95). She reported the story and remains unconvinced by defense arguments that McDuffie died of crash injuries. The balance of the book is a recollecting of her 16-year career as Miami's murder maven. "I have reported more than 5,000 violent deaths," she boasts. "Many of the corpses have had familiar faces: cops and killers, politicians and prostitutes...
Basing his estimate on interviews and private records, Kurzman writes that in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, 3,000 victims were cremated in conformance with Hindu custom, and 3,000 were buried according to Muslim rites. He also cites accounts that an additional 2,000 victims fled Bhopal and died elsewhere. Similar and even wilder versions of the disaster's toll have previously circulated in India. But compensation claims for deaths caused by the accident remain well below 3,000. Indian officials last week disputed Kurzman's finding. Said one: "The figure we announced was based on solid investigations...
...these matters, it was well accepted at the time, the girl must disappear and the hoodlum boy never know." That Night, Author Alice McDermott's second novel, deftly balances the ravenous powers of young love against the shelters of community, security, the orderly progress of generations. In the aftermath of the episode that night, the parents in the neighborhood "had only begun to learn that while their love had been sufficient to form us, it would not necessarily keep us alive." Passions, in McDermott's striking prose, both murder and create...
...British high court failed to uphold a patent that the company had received in Britain on t-PA, a substance that dissolves blood clots, a cause of heart attacks. Some industry experts think the British case could be a harbinger of more patent troubles for biotech firms. In the aftermath of the London ruling, the prices of biotech stocks generally fell...