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Word: koen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jury of 12 decides the verdict. I thought the American way was much fairer until I heard the O.J. Simpson verdict. I have learned from this case that because Simpson was rich, he could buy his defense. The American system of law is not all that fair. KOEN BAART, Barneveld, the Netherlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1995 | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...water, and then giving up and settling helplessly on the ground, staring at the few workers who bustle around. At the rate the disease is spreading, between 7,000 and 70,000 are almost certain to die in coming days. "I've never seen anything like it," said Dr. Koen Henckaerts. "But then I haven't seen a million refugees either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cry the Forsaken Country | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...tell Emmett Koen about the chaos theory of air travel. He and thousands of other flyers lived it last week when American Airlines flight attendants staged the largest U.S. airline strike in nearly five years, a walkout that threatened to paralyze the nation's largest airline and ruin many a traveler's Thanksgiving holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fasten Your Seatbelts | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

While other angry passengers watched helplessly as ghost planes -- no flight attendants, no passengers, just baggage -- pulled away from the jammed gates at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Koen fumed as he watched his $5,000 Hawaiian cruise slip away too. First his flight was delayed, then canceled. His proposed punishment for the strikers: that they "all be taken to the nearest tree and hung up by their thumbs and beaten with a two-by- four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fasten Your Seatbelts | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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