Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...videotape, Cicippio said: "I appeal to each person having honor who can move to release Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, don't be late because they are very serious to hang us and the period become very soon and the hours very little...
...patient interviewer and an even more patient listener, Parker captures the appeal of the familiar without sounding quaint or condescending. His Kansas is certainly less exciting than the one Truman Capote invented nearly 25 years ago, when he absented himself from Manhattan's society lunch circuit to pioneer the true-crime genre with In Cold Blood. The modest truths conveyed by Parker will not sell as well but may last longer...
...with extinction. In just the past decade the population of Kenya's herd has plummeted from 65,000 to about 17,000. Had Kenya sold the store of tusks, many hacked from the skulls of baby elephants, it could have earned $3 million. But, said Moi, "obviously Kenya cannot appeal to the world to stop buying - ivory if at the same moment we are selling the very same commodity...
...judge did grant Paramount's motion for a ten-day stay of the Time-Warner merger while Paramount appeals to the Delaware Supreme Court, which agreed to consider briefs throughout this week and hear the final arguments in the case ! on July 24. The appeal prevented Time from purchasing 100 million of Warner's nearly 200 million shares in a $70-per-share tender that had been scheduled to expire this week. Time would acquire the remaining Warner shares later for cash and securities...
...Delaware court rejects Paramount's challenge to the $14 billion combination of Time Inc. and Warner Communications, but the merger is temporarily stayed to allow an appeal...