Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sorority member who resides near the Phi Gamma Delta house said that Krueger was at least partially to blame for his condition...
...support 10 gifts of $100 million each over the course of a decade. The actual gifts may or may not be made in stock, and their value will be less than $1 billion if Time Warner stock falls in value. (Last Friday the stock closed at $55.25 a share, near its all-time high.) Many of the details of the donation, including its tax benefits to Turner, have yet to be worked out. "I don't even know what the tax breaks are," says Turner. "I haven't considered them." His casual style of giving has not made things easy...
...surprise last week when, just as historic talks began to try to dissolve the annealed hate that divides Northern Ireland, a 400-lb. bomb exploded in a largely Protestant town near Belfast. The hard men for whom terrorism has become a way of life were again trying to blow away the chance for peace. Nor was it a surprise that the Protestant politicians, who fear any change in their domination of the province, denounced the bombing as a Roman Catholic republican plot that made the talks impossible...
...profitable business. Kodak's piece of the U.S. market for amateur film for consumers is estimated to have brought in $3.4 billion in revenues last year at deep green profit margins of 70%. But if it doesn't do something, its market share will continue to erode. From a near monopoly position in the U.S., it now has less than 75%. Its market share in August of this year compared with the previous year dropped a staggering 5 points...
...paper and played in a bridge club every Friday. She baked bread, tended garden and strolled into the nearby village of Champagne-Mouton on market day, tall and delicate, a sight so fair the mayor's tired old heart would stir. The Gold Creek met the Silver Creek near the Mallons' acreage, and all around, the gentlest breeze would set fields of sunflowers ablaze with waves of golden light...