Word: friday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Patrick Moynihan's Delaware County farm last Wednesday, and the education event that afternoon began a war of attrition. Says an adviser: "It was fun to watch the TV cameras shut down and leave the room one by one." On Thursday the media horde had dwindled to 200; by Friday it was down...
...defendants will no doubt appeal the jury's verdict, and they have often fared well on appeal. In a little more than a year, Florida appellate courts have thrown out a $1 million verdict and a $750,000 verdict in tobacco cases. The industry took heart last Friday when a Louisiana jury absolved two tobacco companies of responsibility in the cancer death of an individual smoker...
...Should that fast-flying Piper Saratoga have taken off at all? The witness of the moment is the last man to see the handsome scion alive: Kyle Bailey, another pilot who was planning a similar Friday evening jaunt. Bailey saw the haze and the fast-approaching dark and decided to stay on the ground. Kennedy was a green pilot, his license a year old, and was rated to fly visually, but not by instruments, which would be required in poor visibility. Perhaps John Jr. was thinking of his waiting family, of his cousin?s wedding, or the ride to Martha...
...most blessed and accursed family in American politics appears to have lost another of its shining stars. John F. Kennedy Jr. was just being a Kennedy on Friday night, jetting off to Martha's Vineyard in clear weather at the helm of his single-engine Piper Saratoga with his beautiful Carolyn at his side, bound for the wedding of his late uncle's daughter. He never arrived. On Sunday morning the U.S. Coast Guard continued its search for the plane in the waters off Martha's Vineyard, having found only bits of the plane and a piece of luggage bearing...
David Trimble?s Nobel Peace Prize may have been a little premature. Northern Ireland?s political leaders went back to the drawing board Friday, with the decision to keep talking being about the only thing they?re able to agree on. Trimble and his Ulster Unionist Party brought last year?s peace agreement crashing to a standstill Thursday by refusing to take their seats in the new Northern Ireland assembly, insisting they would boycott until the IRA begins to disarm. Having failed to navigate a way through the impasse, Britain picked up the phone overnight and summoned former U.S. senator...