Word: opened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday night, eight-year-old Tiffany DeFreese sat alone on the sloping grass, bare feet poking beneath the yellow police tape, eyes on an open door 150 ft. away. "I'm just trying to get a sneak peek in so I can see my best friend," she says of Mychelle. "I just saw them take a bag out. It was a big bag. It must have been the mother...
...society is a peaceful society." This ludicrous aphorism, says historian Michael Bellesiles of Emory University, turned 200 years of Western tradition on its ear. Until 1850, fewer than 10% of U.S. citizens had guns. Only 15% of violent deaths between 1800 and 1845 were caused by guns. Reputedly wide-open Western towns, such as Dodge City and Tombstone, had strict gun-control laws; guns were confiscated at the Dodge City limits...
This year, the Doug Flutie Foundation for Autism will be the recipient of proceeds from the charity fund-raiser to be held on September 9 at the U.S. Courthouse. The event is open...
...Tamils spent the 1950s and 1960s protesting peacefully, following the satyagraha method of peace pioneered by Mahatma Gandhi. The police spent the 1950s and 1960s beating them up. During the 1970s, the LTTE formed. In 1983, open fighting began. My parents grew up in a perpetual state of emergency--random police checkpoints, people disappearing, arrests and imprisonment without cause, questioning without reasonable suspicion...
...pharmaceutical company CEO heart trouble. A Texas woman who claimed she suffered heart-valve damage from using the diet-drug combination fen-phen was awarded $23 million by a jury Friday in the first verdict involving the controversial drug. It may not be the last. "This could definitely open the floodgates for suits related to this drug," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. And you don?t even need heart-valve damage to bring a suit -- in Trenton, N.J., this week, jury selection began in a class-action lawsuit involving healthy plaintiffs. They want money to cover years of medical...