Word: papered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considers appointing a special prosecutor to the murder investigation, people everywhere are shaking their heads in disbelief. What have the police been doing all this time? Nothing particularly productive, apparently, especially given that JonBenet?s immediate family is linked to some pretty damning evidence: a ransom note composed with paper and pen from the family house, which handwriting experts speculated might have been written by one of the parents, reported multiple disappearances of Mr. Ramsey on the night of the murder and the fact that the family was permitted to wander freely throughout the house, after the police arrived...
Midway through the speech, Hashimoto snatched a manila packet from an assistant sitting near the podium, pulled several sheets of paper out and read off numbers detailing dollar/yen exchange rates...
However, in spite of the Crimson's superior performance on paper, Harvard's defense inexplicably crumbled at the end of the fourth quarter. With Harvard cradling a tender 23-17 lead with 1:14 left in the game, the Big Red began its drive from its own 42-yard line and obliterated the Crimson's defense...
Next weekend, the Crimson will travel to Fordham (0-5, 0-2 Patriot), which lost Saturday 35-18 to Penn and lost two weekends ago to Cornell, 42-14. Fordham barely poses a threat on paper, but Harvard has to shake off two week's worth of disappointing losses...
...have been spared some of minutiae on the family members who had less to do with the newspaper), Tifft--a former writer for TIME--and Jones forcefully make the point that the self-effacing Ochs-Sulzberger clan got one big thing right: the need to protect and nurture the paper entrusted to them. Although this book is light on the financial and business detail that would permit a fuller judgment of the family's management of their trust, the story of the Ochs-Sulzberger family makes one want to join the cheer sent up by former executive editor Max Frankel...