Word: commits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact feel the injustice that so many blacks are subject to in our system? No. He was acquitted for a double murder that DNA suggests he committed, the very opposite of what usually happens to black men. Surely somewhere else last week, a black man was convicted for a murder he didn't commit, but nobody knows about it, and very few people care...
...loans. Just last week a government report urged the use of taxpayer funds to bail out the banking system. That outraged critics like Hatsuko Yoshioka, the head of Japan's powerful Housewives' Association, an umbrella organization of 391 women's civic groups. Yoshioka wants major banks like Daiwa to commit some of their vast resources to shoring up ailing banks and housing lenders. Says she: "Daiwa Bank, although it lost $1.1 billion, is still going to be in the black this year. Why is that? Even when banks have big problems, they can still have profits...
...TIME FRAME The prosecution asserts that the killings occurred at around 10:15 p.m., when neighbors say they heard the cries of Nicole's dog. That would give Simpson enough time--about an hour--to get from his house to Nicole's, commit the murders and return home for the limo that would take him to the airport. The defense presented witnesses--some less credible than others--who said that at 10:15 all was well around Nicole's house. Clark ridiculed the idea that so many witnesses could have been in the same vicinity at the same time without...
...modern recording era has spawned a curious new breed of conductor who feels compelled to commit anything and everything to disc, even if he has little to say. A highly unscientific survey of the current Schwann catalog highlights Herbert von Karajan, Neeme Jarvi, and Sir Neville Marriner as some of the more egregious offenders...
...afraid of criminals or carjackers. However, as soon as I see the red and blue flashing lights in my car's rearview mirror, my hands start to shake, my legs shiver, and cold sweat runs down my neck. And this happens when I'm fully aware that I have committed no crime. I know there are some good, and even a few outstanding, officers out there. However, decent cops are paying a price for their colleagues' abuses. Sadly enough, they are feeling the way hundreds of innocent citizens have felt when framed or unjustly accused of crimes they didn...