Word: bled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took away the chess set he made from tinfoil, Anderson asked Sutherland to teach him French. Sutherland also kept them occupied with lectures on agriculture and his Volvo car. One day at the end of 1987, overcome by frustration, Anderson banged his head on the wall until his scalp bled. But later, when a French hostage, Marcel Fontaine, said he hoped not to die a prisoner, Anderson replied, "I don't want to die anywhere." Like Anderson, Sutherland experienced days of despair. Several times he tried, but failed, to suffocate himself with plastic bags...
...many times after, is almost certainly the most capable person ever put in charge of the Food and Drug Administration. It is not a post that most folks would relish. When Kessler was appointed last December, he faced an agency that for more than a decade had been bled of funds by the White House and burdened with new responsibilities by Congress. AIDS activists were picketing the front doors because of the FDA's sluggish pace in approving drugs. Five employees had been convicted of accepting bribes from the generic-drug industry. There were allegations that other staffers were selling...
...moment, the stalemated civil war that has bled West Africa's most desperate country for 14 months seemed to be near a conclusion at last. No sooner had the peace talks in nearby Togo adjourned, however, than Liberia's chief rivals for power began disputing the settlement's terms. Charles Taylor, the guerrilla leader whose army controls the countryside, objected to a provision disqualifying him, as well as opposing commanders, from heading a transitional regime in Monrovia. "I expect to head the interim government," he announced. Prince Yeduo Johnson, whose force killed President Samuel Doe in September, denounced the statement...
...summer, Sharis and Bernstein made the U.S. national team and went to Bled, Yugoslavia, where the boat narrowly missed out on a bronze medal by less than a bow ball...
Operating out of a steel-and-glass Houston skyscraper once owned by a failed thrift, Pankau, 44, directs his own agency, Intertect. (Its fee: $60 to $100 an hour.) Pankau's 30 investigators assemble financial profiles of S&L scoundrels who have bled their institutions dry through bad loans and insider dealings. Often court judgments are pending against the culprits, but the regulators or new banks holding the bad notes need to know whether the assets are sizable enough to pursue. "These are world-class con men who were just as sophisticated in hiding their money as they were...