Word: hoped
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...Treasury also said it would allow smaller investment managers to have a chance to participate in the program, probably in the hope that a wider net will catch more fish. But, when the local community bank in Akron, Ohio is allowed to get federal money to buy toxic assets from Bank of America (BAC), it does not look good...
...proceeded to deny his victims even the catharsis of a trial with his plan to plead guilty to 11 felony counts. That surrender enraged some who feared this was one more scam, to protect his family and conceal his true villainy. He still faces 150 years in prison. "I hope his time in jail will be hell on earth," said victim Joan Sinkin, 75, of Boynton Beach...
...Moment" [March 16]: Rush Limbaugh's hope that President Barack Obama fails is nothing less than unpatriotic. It's one thing to represent the loyal opposition and criticize Administration policies. But by championing Obama's failure, he is rooting for America's failure too. Owen Prell, MILL VALLEY, CALIF...
...nearly 30 years, Morton Lachman, 90, served as a key member of comedian Bob Hope's writing troupe. Afterward, he wrote for and produced television programs including the Academy Awards, the Grammys, The Red Skelton Hour and All in the Family, for which he won an Emmy...
...With his groundbreaking 1947 book From Slavery to Freedom, John Hope Franklin, 94, bridged the gap between black history and American history, documenting how blacks and whites coexisted and how widely their experiences differed. Educated at the historically black Fisk University, Franklin earned two postgraduate degrees from Harvard and in 1995 received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for his contribution to African-American history...