Word: piercees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pierce: Cleared, Spanked
Samuel Pierce, President Reagan's first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, won't be charged after a five-year probe of housing corruption scandals in the 1980s -- largely because government prosecutors have concluded that he is old and ill and didn't profit from alleged cronyism in the department...
Signature Products of Huntsville, Alabama, burst onto the national scene with the announcement of a new product line: two novel types of exploding bullets, both designed to kill on impact with thousands of razor-sharp fragments. One type, the company's chief executive claimed, was specially built to pierce police...
Then there was Smith's behavior. What would be a "normal" reaction for a parent faced with the loss of her children? She might have found a natural ally in Marc Klaas, who since the kidnapping and murder of his daughter Polly Klass in October 1993 has devoted himself to...
A handful of other places -- notably Baltimore, Maryland, and Hartford, Connecticut -- are experimenting with a far more radical way to circumvent bureaucracy: hiring a for-profit company to run their schools. "The idea," says Baltimore schools superintendent Walter Amprey, "is to have a company ready for true accountability that offers...