Word: baton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Louisiana judge awarded more than $650,000 to the parents of a Japanese teenager who was shot to death by a Baton Rouge homeowner as the youth was asking directions to a Halloween party. "I felt the intelligence and reasoning of America in the judgment," said the dead boy's mother after the decision. Last year a criminal court acquitted the homeowner, Rodney Peairs, of criminal charges of manslaughter...
...magazines we publish has increased from eight to 24, and revenues rose from $2.1 billion to $3.3 billion last year. He presided over the first successful launch of a weekly magazine in the U.S. in two decades, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. His record speaks for itself, and he passes the baton far out front: Time Inc.'s earnings from continuing operations for the quarter just ended were at an all-time high...
...creative trio only Levine trusted his material and worked to burnish it. His Wagner has been criticized for being too slow. Certainly he chooses rapture rather than excitement. In the Festspielhaus, with its marvelous acoustics, every instrument is audible and clear. Under Levine's baton the music seems translucent, and the melodies play themselves. "It is as if I am standing in front of a treasure chest," the conductor says, "and the idea is to draw it all out where the listener can hear it and feel it and get involved...
...reason why. In four terms as Governor, Edwards, who was tried twice for fraud and racketeering but never convicted, who ran up huge gambling debts while Governor and who squired so many young women while still in his first marriage that he was dubbed "the Silver Zipper," has made Baton Rouge the undisputed capital of rascally political folklore...
Edwards now suffers from negative ratings of about 63% and yet another investigation. Though not a target himself, he has testified before a Baton Rouge grand jury looking into favoritism in the awarding of gaming licenses for riverboat gambling. His critics also complain that his four children, all of whom have pursued business opportunities with the state's newly legalized casinos, were in a position to gain from his success in pushing legalized casino gaming through the legislature last year...