Word: knifings
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...Rathbone tries to grab Booth, but Booth slashes him severely with a hunting knife...
...kind, good, generous, tender-hearted ruler, whose every thought was purity," exclaimed Benjamin Butler, a general in the war, to a crowd in New York City, "whose every desire a yearning for forgiveness and peace, what shall be done to them in high places who guided the assassin's knife?" The crowd began to chant, "Hang them! Hang them!" The assassination, Northern leaders saw, had a great political value. "His death," noted a caucus of Republican Congressmen, "is a godsend to our cause...
...Acer's continued profitability is not assured. The company posted earnings of $219.7 million last year but its operating margin was a knife-edged 1.7%, compared with Dell's 8.6%. Yet Wang and Lanci are in expansion mode, investing in marketing and distribution networks in China and the U.S. The goal is to become one of the top three PC sellers by 2008. Even Shih seems impressed. "[Wang] has helped place Acer on the right track," Shih says,"and onto a steady and growing momentum." High praise from the man who once thought there was nowhere for his company...
...were let go in the news division; some 300 positions were cut at ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. Such familiar trappings of the executive life-style as limousines and liberal expense accounts are now frowned on. Programming, too, may soon feel the knife. The network known for such blockbuster mini-series as Roots and The Winds of War is now shying away from these extravagant ventures. Cheap game shows are not about to invade prime time, and Joan Collins' Dynasty finery appears safe, at least for the time being; but it is clear...
...three dead crew members found inside were Americans. The pair were later identified as William J. Cooper, 61, of Reno, and Wallace Elaine Sawyer Jr., 41, of Magnolia, Ark. A day later searchers cornered Hasenfus hiding in an abandoned shack. Though he was armed with a pistol and a knife, he offered no resistance, and was marched off to a Sandinista base camp. The following day he was helicoptered to Managua, where, unshaven and haggard, he made a brief statement to the press: "My name is Gene Hasenfus. I come from Marinette, Wis. I was captured yesterday in southern Nicaragua...