Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police officers spotted him. When Serrano was informed, he realized the restaurant was only nine blocks from his home, and immediately ordered the bodyguards watching over his own family to arrest Santacruz. They arrived in three or four minutes and took the druglord into custody. "He was a bit fatter than in the pictures and videos we had of him," says Serrano. "He was in a very shocked state...
...buildings are not architecturally orengineeringly built for terrorism," Taylor said."Our country is very soft and a bit spoiled in thefreedoms that we've had. Hopefully, it [the U.S.]doesn't turn out to be a melting pot ofterrorism...
...rising political star and number two man Viktor Chernomyrdin would take his place, Kohan notes. "It's interesting that Chernomyrdin's press secretary was the first one to announce that Yeltsin was fine and the prime minister would not be taking over for him. The whole thing has a bit of "the lady doth protest too much" quality...
Amid a series of closed-door meetings with the Senate Ethics Committee, which is investigating allegations of impropriety against him that include sexual misconduct, Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood got a rare bit of good news. The Justice Department said it would not prosecute him on a set of charges that accused him of having arranged for lobbyists to make job offers to his wife in exchange for official favors...
...helped Robert Taylor live up to his character's name. Her turn in 1957's Peyton Place won her an Oscar nomination. She followed it with a role in the real-life melodrama that erupted when her daughter fatally knifed an abusive boyfriend of Turner's. Things went a bit better for her seven husbands; they merely got divorced...