Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hung sweet- smelling potpourri in her shops to attract trade and laid trails of perfume on the sidewalks leading to her door. And she moved quickly into franchising -- carefully vetting would-be franchisees with such offbeat questions as "What is your favorite flower?" and "How would you like to die...
Kazarian, whose investment group acquired financially troubled Sunbeam-Oster (ne Allegheny International) in 1990, was sacked by the company's board after a series of bizarre incidents. According to the Wall Street Journal, he fired a BB gun at empty chairs during a meeting while shouting "Die! Die!," threw a pint of orange juice past his controller's head, stomped on telephones in anger, and made lewd and vulgar comments to women in public. He was also reported to have regularly berated his senior officers, allegedly calling one of them a "scum." Kazarian denied the allegations...
FOOTNOTE: *I know you paid taxes on the money you paid into Social Security, and thus expected tax-free benefits. But you were also expected to die when you were 72, not 92 -- so we all have to bend a little to make this work. Our kids need Head Start, and we can't afford it if you don't help...
...choice but to kill or be killed? The real catalyst, they suggest, was not her fear but her fury. Prosecutors often turn a woman's history of abuse into a motive for murder. "What some clemency advocates are really saying is that that s.o.b. deserved to die and why should she be punished for what she did," argues Dressler. Unless the killing came in the midst of a violent attack, it amounts to a personal death-penalty sentence. "I find it very hard to say that killing the most rotten human being in the world when he's not currently...
...miles) northeast of Tokyo, it was greeted by 1,000 protesters, some of whom had painted the universal radiation warning symbol on their faces. The crowd eventually dispersed and the cargo was nestled safely in an ultrasecure storage facility, but the controversy is not likely to die down. Still on the minds of environmentalists the world over: What role will the deadly material play in Japan's future...