Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within a week of Debra's death, Leigh Ann was spending nights at the house with Barton and his kids. The month after Debra's murder, Leigh Ann's divorce was final, and six months later, the two moved in together. By then Barton was living in Morrow, Ga., where neighbors knew nothing about his first wife's murder--until last week. His second marriage, however, gave little promise of a happily-ever-after life. Leigh Ann would often pick up and leave, and neighbors would gossip about problems at home. There had been family trouble in February 1994, when...
...audience (not just the disorderly ones) seems to have judged that the organizers violated an unwritten social contract. Things came to a head on the final night; the crowds made bonfires of accumulated trash heaps and danced around the flames--a Dionysian image for the cameras. Rioters, admittedly a small minority of the crowd of more than 200,000, attacked concession stands and threw tables and chairs onto the flames. The more ambitious attacked an ATM. Someone burned a Mercedes near the stage; others set fire to 12 tractor-trailer trucks; propane tanks fired off gaudily...
Because I attended the World Cup final on July 10 instead of going to work, I was fired from my job. But I have no regrets. Words cannot describe the feeling of standing in a stadium of 90,000 fans and cheering insanely as Brandi Chastain scored the winning goal. It was the most amazing event. I can always get another job, but witnessing that victory was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. JOHANNA T. DAVY, 16 Manhattan Beach, Calif...
After days of negotions by the Joint Committee on Taxation--made up of members of the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee--the Congress narrowly approved a final version of the bill yesterday. Republican leaders plan on sending the legislation to President Clinton when they return from summer recess in September...
...helping the rich." They?ve got a point: According to the Treasury Department, the middle 60 percent of American families would have gotten 33 percent of the tax breaks under the original Senate plan ?- not a lot to begin with -- but only 21 percent of the cuts in the final bill. The top 20 percent are slated for the remaining 79 percent. Republicans don?t disagree ?- they?ve got plenty of voters making more than $82,000 a year -? but respond that these are the folks that pay most of the taxes in the first place. "Rich people...