Word: groves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. WES FARRELL, 56, songwriter; of cancer; in Coconut Grove, Florida. Farrell's hits included Hang on Sloopy and Come a Little Bit Closer...
MICROSOFT CHAIRMAN BILL GATES hates it. So does Intel president Andy Grove and virtually every other chief executive in Silicon Valley. In Washington the representatives of America's vaunted high-tech industries hate it too. Phyllis Eisen, senior policy director of the 14,000-member National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), one of the country's most powerful business lobbies, decries it as "insane...
Finally, however, that merciless voice may be silenced. Working off a tip supplied by Billig, investigators traced a series of incoming phone calls to her one-story stucco home in the Coconut Grove enclave in Miami to a cellular phone owned by Henry Johnson Blair, 48, a U.S. Customs special agent with 24 years of distinguished service. Last month Dade Circuit Court prosecutors charged Blair with three counts of aggravated stalking and alleged that he had admitted to harassing Billig over the past 18 months. After Blair pleaded not guilty, he was freed on a $75,000 bond. Now investigators...
Billig still remembers the first time she heard the Voice. On the day that Amy vanished while strolling to her parents' art gallery in Coconut Grove, Billig and her husband Ned alerted the police and the press, bought extra phones and placed pads and pencils by each extension. When the first late-night call came some 10 days later, Billig answered. "I was trying to spare Ned," she recalls. That night, Billig scrawled the first of the many meticulous notes she would still be filing away chronologically two decades later. Within a month she could recognize the caller...
...River Grove, Illinois, a Chicago-bound commuter train plowed into a school bus filled with teenagers, killing seven students and injuring nearly 30 others. The bus had apparently come to a stop for a red light situated just beyond a railroad crossing, with the rear of the bus still extended over the tracks. An investigation is under...