Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financed his raids to trying to hide the number of shares he owned. In its suit, the SEC asks for repayment of more than $31 million in allegedly illegal profits. While denying the new charges, Bilzerian last week resigned as chairman of Singer, a post he had held for just 18 months...
...ruling on 16- and 17-year-olds grew out of murder cases against Kevin Stanford of Kentucky and Heath Wilkins of Missouri. Stanford was 17 in 1981 when he held up a gas station, then sodomized a female attendant and shot her in the head at point-blank range. At 16 Wilkins repeatedly stabbed a woman owner of a convenience store in the neck and chest during a 1985 robbery. Justice Scalia emphasized that the constitutionality of sentencing 16- and 17- year-olds to death depends on the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society...
...lose about 80% of it over a weekend. "Then I'd steal," he says. Sometimes he would pilfer racks of dresses off the streets in Manhattan's garment district and sell them in a back alley. He adds, "There's plenty of times I've taken a gun and held up people -- and I'm a white-collar person." Fleeing to California to escape bill collectors, he started a successful garment business in Los Angeles but continued betting beyond his means; eventually he was arrested by FBI agents. Says he: "That night I called Gamblers Anonymous...
Shaken by the district setback and disturbed by unconfirmed rumors that yet another uncomfortable revelation about his personal life was about to be published, Uno held a late-night meeting with advisers. The next morning, daily headlines declared, UNO REVEALS PLAN TO RESIGN. Newspapers reported that an agitated Uno told his advisers he could "no longer manage my job" in the face of added revelations...
...their commercial timber within as little as seven years. Local officials have given loggers access to an estimated 95% of Sarawak's forests that are outside existing or proposed parks and protected areas. Even those tracts are coveted by corrupt politicians. According to Harrison Ngau, a Sarawak native being held under house arrest for taking part in antilogging protests, some forests have been excised from protected lands to open them up to the lumbermen...