Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multiple times, claimed he had threatened them with a rifle. L.A.P.D. partners Rafael Perez and Nino Durden had been working undercover in a vacant apartment in a building known as a gang hangout. They said they were forced to shoot Ovando when he burst in. Their story seemed a bit iffy--"He has a semiautomatic with a banana clip, yet they both manage to pull out their pistols and shoot?" asks Tamar Toister, who defended Ovando--but the testimony seemed persuasive, and a jury voted to convict. At sentencing, the judge noted that Ovando showed no remorse...
Following a team meeting called to discuss the compensation issue, Woods did his Cheshire bit and said, "We had a lovely time," but the well-respected Crenshaw, known as Gentle Ben, was visibly upset and expressed disgust with "a couple of people." Love chipped in, "If five guys say they're not going to play, great, because there's five more guys that are going to play...
Come the Music Hall's "gala reopening" on Oct. 4, the people who operate the place--Cablevision Systems, through its Madison Square Garden subsidiary--will be hoping that today's judges will be a bit less cranky. After a seven-month restoration that stripped it to its bones and then rebuilt it virtually from ruins, the grand old theater will look strikingly unfamiliar to nearly anyone who has been there before. It will look the way it did 67 years...
...outfit her clients, Kellogg scours the papers for news of company relocations and closings, so she can pick up used desks and chairs. She furnished the 25-person Affinia office for a bit more than $1,000. The whiteboards were so fresh from a failed start-up they still had the old company's competitive analysis on it. The competitors apparently...
September is book-party season in New York City. But starving authors who used to move from shindig to shindig to get fed are finding the pickings a bit slim. Publishers have wearied of the big book launch, and now regard it as an unnecessary expense. Before this peculiar cultural event becomes obsolete, Notebook brings you a sociological study...