Word: byron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gearan said aides were trying to schedule a meeting between Dukakis and a group of congressmen headed by Rep. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), to discuss possible federal legislation on beefed up tax enforcement based on the commonwealth's tightened tax collecting policies under Dukakis...
...briefly as investors dumped speculative takeover stocks. This time, big institutions and foreign investors evidently believed the scandal poses no particular threat to their current strategy of snapping up basic industrial stocks, which the buyers think will be helped by a growing economy and a falling U.S. dollar. Says Byron Wien, a stock strategist for the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "The continued strength of the market shows that most investors do not believe the system is evil...
...siege scenario. In one instance, a suspected drug dealer shot an acquaintance who was after his stash, according to authorities, and in two others, jealous lovers killed rivals. "What it boils down to is that any crime committed in a dwelling will be almost impossible to prosecute," complains Jack Byron, an assistant district attorney in Golden...
...developed the screenplay, Byron stripped the narrative of interstices and "intrigue" so that there would be less interaction among the main characters, and the vision of Virgil would be filtered through the Narrator's unblinking eyes. It is through his outsider's eye that the good people of Virgil are viewed. Yet an unusual symbiosis takes place. The Eastern sharpies in the film's crew and the hard-caked rurals whose town they invade get along just fine. Earl Culver and Louis and the Lying Woman and the rest, while remaining very much their idiosyncratic selves, easily form the newest...
...They are also unpredictable in their attachments. Serpell tells of a Texas hairdresser whose four-week-old daughter was killed by the family Rottweiler. Her response after hearing that the beast would have to be destroyed: "I can always have another baby but I can't replace my dog Byron...