Word: grave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nationwide. For six of the last eight years, the championship was a given and ratings were high. For four months, teams of lawyers, cell-phone-toting players' union representatives strung us along us along, finally gracing us with a season when the financial consequences of doing otherwise were too grave to bear...
...parole board that ever sees fit to unleash this demon on society again," New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin Torres said in sentencing John Rosado to 50 to 100 years in prison, calling him the devil incarnate. "And if necessary, I will arise from my mouldy grave to visit it on them myself...
...belonging to McGwire. Once the grounds keeper got his mitts on it, the ball was his. Says so right on every ticket to the game. He probably knew that and was thinking in grand, symbolic terms. Still, his act betrays a mind-set that leads many of us into grave errors in daily money matters. Here are Forneris' missteps and what you can learn from them...
...lawyers launched their defense. The lawyers' presentation was more factual, more respectful and more effective than anything they managed in the House. The idea was to alternate sober, numbing presentations of exculpatory evidence with passionate appeals to common sense and American ideals. Ruff opened the defense with a grave dissection of the House managers' conspiracy theory. He argued that the chronology broke down--Vernon Jordan was already on a plane to Europe when Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the Paula Jones team could question other women--so the ruling could not have triggered his meeting earlier that...
...auction to local real estate developer Ossie Smith. They contend that local officials denied their eldest son, Phillip R., the right to purchase the farm at its appraised price after the foreclosure--even though he had the financing to do so. They also claim that Smith bulldozed the grave of Dorathy's father on the property--despite a court-ordered stay pending outcome of the class action. Smith refuses to comment on the allegation...