Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kucinich and Hongisto have taken their battle to the public, appearing separately on TV talk shows and granting frequent interviews to reporters. The first wave of mail and phone calls to city hall ran heavily in Hongisto's favor. Indeed, if Kucinich's critics manage to collect the 37,000 signatures required for his recall, Hongisto has hinted that he might run against Kucinich in the new election...
Stacy feels nauseated when she wakes up that Saturday morning, but she knows she has to make the trip. The week before, she went to the clinic, but she ran away. "I was just sitting there thinking, 'Should I or shouldn't I?' " she recalls. "But I got scared looking at all those machines...
Though money was obviously the gang's motive, Caillol and his accomplices seemed to elude easy classification. Caillol, 36, the suspected ringleader, is the son of a prosperous furniture manufacturer and ran a branch of his father's business in Montpellier. Daniel Duchateau, 39, who died in the Shootout, was even more enigmatic. After serving a six-year term for armed robbery from 1966 to '72, he wrote a book about why he had become a criminal. A five-year army stint convinced him, wrote Duchateau, that money brings liberty. "It's nothing really, just little...
...paying price premiums up to 100% to buy and hoard uncut stones. Banks have been buying diamonds for customers' portfolios, instead of stocks. "Some people have bought kilos' worth of diamonds," says Antwerp Diamond Cutter Sylvain Zucker. Disgusted by the speculation, New York's Tiffany & Co. ran a newspaper ad in March telling customers: "Diamonds are too high. We suggest you look before you leap...
Despite these encumbrances, however, some of the profiles do come alive. Will Barnes, for example, recalls life in an Idaho mining camp, where his mother's five husbands "slammed her around, beat her kids, stole her money, drank themselves blind and in the end either deserted her or ran down the road with my mother shooting in the doorway after them." A Party member for 30 years and an organizer in the National Maritime Union, Barnes is still suffering from the aftermath of the witch-hunting America of the 1950s...