Word: moving
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...that either the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles or Governor George W. Bush, who must concur for a sentence to be commuted, will block her execution. Bush, a law-and-order Republican facing a re-election campaign this year, would seem to gain little politically by such a move. Moreover, there simply are not the requisite legal questions or doubts about her guilt that might prompt commutation. Pardon has never been given to anyone in Texas based on religious conversion...
...Ultimately the venture failed. Indeed, Seed in recent years appears to have suffered some financial reversals. Until last summer he and his third wife Gloria lived in a two-story Victorian house in Oak Park. But the bank foreclosed on their $341,000 mortgage, and they were forced to move to a modest bungalow in nearby Riverside. "I had a beautiful house," sighs Seed. "It's very difficult to make money but extremely easy to lose it. I lost a couple of million dollars...
TEXAS ("MAD, MAD, MAD") CATTLEMEN OCCUPATION: Killing bovines BEST PUNCH: Thirteen cattlemen have forced Oprah to move her talk show to Amarillo, Texas, on Jan. 26 for a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit they filed under Texas' popular "veggie libel...
...oven in the center of the town and then live in willed isolation from the outside world. Haven thrives for decades until the male descendants of the founding fathers return from service in World War II and find that the place has atrophied in their absence, that residents are moving out, seeking work in cities, looking for a share in the postwar prosperity. So these young men decide to repeat the past. They dismantle the oven, load it on a truck and move it and their families farther west to start up, from scratch, another Oklahoma town, which they name...
Many of these small designers insist they aren't dependent on a particular fad--that their labels can jump with the trends they pick up from the streets. Positano's Charles Lapson, one of the hippest designers in Los Angeles, is already looking to stay ahead of the curve, moving toward inside logos and some slimmer fits. But analyst Laurence Leeds, managing director of the Buckingham Research Group, thinks none of these companies will ever be as big as Hilfiger. "Fringe fashion is never volume," says Leeds. "What these companies do well is move fashion forward, but I have doubts...