Word: murderes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...industrial society, and embraced a pro-environment, back-to-the-woods philosophy. That could explain his obsession with using wood in his bombs and last week's targeting of the California Forestry Association, which represents logging companies. And in the Times letter, the Unabomber declares that last December's murder of Thomas Mosser, a former executive with the Burson-Marsteller public-relations firm, was in protest against the company's representing Exxon, whose oil tanker fouled Alaska's Prince William Sound in the great oil spill...
Optimism cannot paper over the country's problems, however. Political violence is disappearing, but good old-fashioned crime has more than filled the vacuum, making South Africa one of the most violent countries on earth, with a murder rate six times that of the U.S.'s. Moreover, some A.N.C. officials have been accused of corruption. Wary foreign investors say that while South Africa has an excellent infrastructure and a sophisticated banking system, its work force -- at least compared with Asia's-is undereducated, overpaid and too politicized...
...exchange for guaranteed votes, Sicily's easily corruptible DC bosses, most of them allied with seven-term Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, looked the other way as the Mafia embarked on an orgy of grand theft and murder. The beautiful historic heart of Palermo was left to rot while Mafia-allied contractors put up ugly, jerry-built apartments on the capital's rim. Millions of dollars were siphoned from projects that were never completed and municipal services never rendered. Honest officials who tried to block or expose the corruption often became what Sicilians quaintly call "excellent cadavers...
Having quelled a jury mutiny and narrowly averted a mistrial, Judge Lance Ito took heed of complaints about the turgid pace of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Ito told attorneys to speed up their questioning, tossed out some obstreperous spectators and even said the lunch break would be shortened. Testimony was largely taken up by the defense's exhaustive efforts to show that a police criminalist was both incompetent and an integral player in a complex police conspiracy against Simpson...
...local Arab groups initiated attacks against Jewish civilians such as the murder of 39 workers at the Haifa refineries and the planting of explosives in Jewish towns which killed dozens of people. In Ben-Yehuda Street, Jerusalem, scores of men, women and children were killed or maimed when Arab assailants exploded a bomb in the crowded city center. By March, 1948, more than 1,200 Jews had been killed, half of them civilians...