Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wanted for questioning about bombings at the Atlanta Olympics and at a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic...
...April 1913 the body of Mary Phagan, 13, strangled to death, was found in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. Leo Frank, the factory's manager, was arrested for the crime and, despite his protestations of innocence, convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Two years later, after his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment by the Governor of Georgia, Frank was taken from his prison cell by persons unknown and lynched. Because Frank was Jewish, his case became a nationwide cause celebre for Jewish groups and political figures crusading against anti-Semitism...
...part because of information gathered by TIME, Southwest has hired an environmental-engineering firm, Air Quality Sciences of Atlanta, to conduct a complete hygiene inspection of the San Antonio center. The building undergoes annual cleanings and monthly inspections, asserts Ginger Hardage, vice president of public relations for Southwest. "We are known as a company that cares for its people," she says...
...might be somewhere in that end zone, but Testaverde was a crowbar short. Yet the Jets were given the touchdown that might have knocked Seattle out of the playoffs. "It's nonsense to say 'Let's wait,'" says Fox-TV analyst Tim Green, a former defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons. "That play could end up costing [Seattle coach] Dennis Erickson...
...hype, and then some. It is big (742 pages), crammed with the author's keen and boisterous prose and encyclopedic in its scope. Wolfe believes that novels can still show us the way we live now. His version of a cross section of today's Atlanta proves that his novels certainly...