Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three counts. A third defendant, Boris Sabas, 42, was convicted of conspiracy and crossing state lines, but acquitted of extortion charges. Jackson, 22, has portrayed herself as an innocent and abandoned child who merely wanted her rightful portion of Cosby's massive fortune. But that defense was dealt a blow when Judge Barbara Jones ruled the issue of paternity was irrelevant to the extortion charge, though the judge allowed the defense to argue that the defendant believed the actor was her father and that she had a legal right to his money. However, the $40 million that Jackson had demanded...
...comments, chalking them up to the intricacies of Canadian-Belgian relations. Seems that Chretien was speaking to Belgian Prime Minister JEAN-LUC DEHAENE. Belgians disdain French Canadians as bumpkins, Clinton explained, so Chretien was just trying to impress Dehaene with his toughness. Clinton later told reporters, "You gotta blow something like that off." His planned revenge: "To get even on the golf course...
...alliance, how much it will cost or how many years or decades the growth spurt, and the conflicts that come with it, will last. Meanwhile, each time new members are taken in, new dividing lines will be drawn across the Continent. Russia, one of the two states that can blow up the world, will be on the other side of those lines...
...reach the Martian surface, and that won't be easy. The 1,300-lb. spacecraft will slam into the planet's atmosphere at 16,300 m.p.h., ultimately causing it to experience deceleration forces of 20 Gs. The vehicle's cork-and-silicon aeroshell should absorb most of this body blow. Both a parachute and a retrorocket will slow its plunge, and an array of airbags will inflate to cushion the shock of landing. And finally, the spacecraft will simply drop to the surface, striking the ground like a beach ball and rolling to a stop in the ancient floodplain...
...death penalty, but if not McVeigh, then who? Perhaps some people will understand his hatred of the Federal Government and his desire to blow up the building in Oklahoma City. Perhaps some will even be persuaded by his delusions that Federal Government workers were his enemies and that he was driven to attack them. But to deliberately choose a time that would kill the most people defies imagination. The retiree checking on his Social Security payment was McVeigh's enemy? The veteran applying for a Veterans Administration loan was his enemy? Parking a van loaded with explosives in front...