Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away as Washington and North Carolina -- into two of Wills' warehouses. Half the cars were stolen; many others were insurance "give-ups" by financially strapped car owners. Not long after, the FBI revealed itself, Wills escaped and law enforcement officers have been tracking him ever since -- with no luck. The case, however, has sparked spin-off investigations that may bag some more chop-shop merchants, including a few ostensibly legitimate auto dealers, as well as "replaters," who transfer identification numbers from junked cars to stolen autos, passing them off as repaired and refurbished...
...Well, Gary, I respect your efforts to move up in the business. Best of luck...
...Kenya unearthed a beautifully preserved 1.9 million-year-old skull of Homo habilis, an early hominid species first discovered by his parents. Ian Tattersall, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, observes that the younger Leakey has more than his share of luck. "Louis Leakey had to crawl over hot rocky outcrops for 30 years before he found anything of importance; Richard struck gold from the start." Roger Lewin, collaborator on three of Richard's seven books, points out that his larger- than-life personality, amplified by coverage in National Geographic magazine...
...Firm" fans around Harvard are in luck: director Sydney Pollack will visit the Harvard Film Archive tomorrow to discuss the hit film after a screening in the Carpenter Center...
...could have predicted a few months ago that the most popular member of an Administration saturated with lawyers would be a lawyer herself; that she would surface from a process that barbecued two other prominent female attorneys. But if Clinton had had the luck and prescience to pick Reno first, he wouldn't have got her; back in November, when the President's staff was shuffling resumes, she was at the bedside of her mother Jane, an indestructible force in her life, who was dying of cancer. Had the President called, Reno wouldn't have come...