Word: journals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notes, published by Dawson's biographer, Francis Watson, in the journal History Today, indicate that the royal physician gave the King two fatal injections, one consisting of three-quarters of a grain of morphine and the other of one grain of cocaine, at about 11 p.m. on Jan. 20, 1936. King George, who was 70 and had long been in failing health, died 40 minutes later. After the injections Dawson advised the editor of the Times of London to stand by for late news. Next morning a headline in the Times proclaimed, A PEACEFUL ENDING AT MIDNIGHT...
...expect the release of several more hostages. In the fall three more Americans in Beirut were kidnaped. In October, the U.S. sent yet another arms shipment to Iran; less than a month later, Hostage David Jacobsen was released. But only a few days before his release, a Lebanese Arabic journal, Al Shiraa, broke the story of the Reagan Administration's dealings with Iran, and the whole scheme began unraveling...
...those reasons, some industry experts seemed ready to believe a report in the Wall Street Journal last week that GM had conducted two months of unsuccessful negotiations with AT&T about the possible sale of all or part of EDS. Analysts thought the talks might have been related to GM's mammoth cost- cutting effort. In recent weeks, GM has announced plans to close ten factories, terminate 29,000 workers and reduce by half the planned output at its proposed ultra-computerized Saturn plant in Tennessee. Said Ann Knight, who follows the auto industry for PaineWebber: "If GM should really...
...world is troubled by fighting, of course. "Uncivilized man may have been bloodthirsty," observes the Journal of the American Medical Association, not referring to the glistening eyes and panting gills of Las Vegas. "Boxing should not be sanctioned by any civilized society." On the other side of the ring, Ali's old corner physician, Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, points out, "You need ! only to turn on the box on Sundays to see an amazing number of stretcher cases being dragged off the field." But then, football is a game...
...jury received a written deposition thatThrope prepared during the advanced stage of herillness and heard excerpts from a journal shebegan keeping after she learned that her cancercould be fatal...