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These days it takes a botched or otherwise unusual execution to grab public attention. Executions have become so frequent they are usually relegated to a couple of column inches on the inside pages of morning newspapers. From the end of the de facto ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in 1977 through last year, only eleven Americans were put to death legally. Stephens' execution last week, however, was the 20th this year. Not since 1963 have the states executed so many people. Next year the rate of executions seems sure to quicken, perhaps to one a week: by most...
...agreed to sell parts of its Eason Oil subsidiary for $240 million. But Araskog's time is running short. Two weeks ago, Minneapolis Investor Irwin Jacobs snapped up more than 3 million of ITT's 139 million outstanding shares. No one knows whether Jacobs has a power grab in mind, but his usual prescription for laggard companies like ITT is clearly spelled out in his nickname: "Irv the Liquidator...
...things happen... One is a realistic view of damages, which we've already talked about. If the purpose if the clearance of good name, the restoration of reputation, the making whole of actual injury, let's limit it to that and not turn it into a sort of a grab bag Two, I would like to focus on something more limited than we have now. Profesor Nesson has drawn you the picture of this bottomless subject of investigation What did the publisher know? How many other things did the publisher know? ... I suggested returning to the simple standard of whether...
...toyland's aisles throughout America last week, it was lurch and grab. Retailers were selling out fast of popular items as soon as they restocked shelves. Tonka has told some storekeepers that they can expect no more shipments until January of its hot-selling GoBots, innocent trucks and vans that turn into ferocious robots. Transformers, clones of GoBots that are made by Hasbro Bradley, are also in short supply and are now outselling their rival...
...possess the following: a letter from your ward boss, a wide-brimmed gray fedora, a diamond pinky ring, and a cigar. When somebody died of anything but natural causes, a deputy coroner rushed to the scene. They always rushed, because they were afraid the wagon men might grab a locket. Once there, it was the responsibility of the deputy coroner to have the body sent to the nearest funeral home owned by his brother-in-law. Then he would gather the facts. It was done this way: He would get the name of the dead person...