Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first scene is played not to the roar of the crowd, but to the roar of the sea at Black-pool, England. In a contraband exchange gone awry, we meet the disturbed Jack Parker, played by the sparkling young Brit, Lee Evans. In an apparent outtake from a David Lynch feature, Parker is left alone in the sea with a wax egg and two severed feet. Unlike a Lynch flick, "Funny Bones" will let you in on the joke, if you wait for the punchline...
...that scarcely explains how the company declined so swiftly under the gaze of a board that boasted such luminaries as famed stockpicker Peter Lynch and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth. The first sign of trouble came last summer when Agee told directors that the company expected to report a loss for the second quarter. "I raised questions about why we hadn't received a preview," Brzezinski recalled last week. His uneasiness grew several months later when "we started getting indications of a fourth-quarter loss that would be larger than anticipated--though nothing like what it finally turned...
...According to the Wall Street Journal, the big winners have included billion-dollar hedge funds headed by such famed managers as George Soros and Julian Robertson; Robertson's Tiger Management fund reportedly raked in some $150 million in 10 days of trading. Says Peter Morgan, an economist for Merrill Lynch in Tokyo: "There is a feeling that speculative forces are challenging the central banks just as they did in 1992," when Britain was forced to devalue the pound...
Authorities also recovered the stolen sack of cash, which contained $281,000, from the back seat of the car, prosecutor Adrienne C. Lynch, the Middlesex assistant district attorney, told the Associated Press...
Adrienne C. Lynch, Middlesex assistant districtattorney, will prosecute the case...