Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MARC COHEN, A HOMEOWNER IN Woodland Hills, California, has a new annual chore. For the past three years in a row, he has refinanced his family's five- bedroom house. "My wife says, 'You must be kidding -- you're doing it again?' " says Cohen, a Merrill Lynch vice president. "It's a pain to do it, but for three weeks of aggravation, you get years of savings on the interest." For his trouble, Cohen now enjoys a 15-year mortgage fixed at 6 3/ 4%, down from the 11 1/2% adjustable-rate loan he originally took...
...models to be competitive in the U.S.," a Toyota executive says. Some Western observers suspect they are witnessing a sea change. "There is a good chance that Japanese carmakers have passed their historical peak in the U.S.," says Benjamin Moyer, a car analyst in the Tokyo office of Merrill Lynch...
...messages flying. "E-mail is the last refuge of a scoundrel," said one. But there were plenty of opponents of the "outing" of Mr. X. "I haven't seen anything posted here that suggests he did anything evil," said a veteran WELL user. "The ugliness here smacks of a lynch mob out for good old-fashioned vengeance...
...more authentic to the experience of being a father." This isn't the first time that Heisler, 39, has conveyed complex ideas for the cover of TIME. His photographs have graced the front of the magazine some 20 times, ranging from Olympic athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee and director David Lynch to former President George Bush and Ted Turner for the Man of the Year issues in 1991 and 1992, respectively. But this week's TIME cover has special meaning, he says, because he and his wife Prudence had their first child, Lucy, 16 months...
...John Lynch in The Secret Garden: "I'm a reclusive grieving widower who blames my sickly son for the death of his beautiful mother. But he and I will be shown the light by my niece, and we will all celebrate life's joys in my spacious backyard...