Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only half done. I got up, walked around and came back. For the next half hour I choked down pizza and just barely made it in under the deadline. I got the last piece in my mouth with 45 seconds to go and just managed to swallow before time ran out I couldn't sleep on my stomach that night...
...decision to set up a creche, on public ground. Indeed, when lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Council of Churches brought suit against the city of Pawtucket, R.I. for violating the separation of church and state by putting up a creche, public sympathy ran low. Even the local B'nai B'rith group reportedly asked the ACLU lawyer, "it's been there so long, why did you even bring...
...have been cheering for the Mahre twins for years and know which one is which. You ran a picture of Steve when you meant to run one of Phil in the slalom race that brought him gold. The conventional wisdom for telling the twins apart is that Phil wears blue goggles (both Phil and blue have four letters) and Steve wears white goggles (both name and color have five letters). The Mahre twin in your picture is wearing white goggles; therefore, he must be Steve...
Ironically, effective law enforcement sometimes seems to make matters worse. Thai narcotics agents ran down several top dealers in Bangkok last year, but the arrests merely prompted the owners of refineries in the Golden Triangle, which were already overloaded with stock, to market their wares independently. To attract new buyers they lowered prices and peddled their product aggressively in the south, where more than 70% of all Thai heroin users reside. The country's authorities report that they are now catching more traffickers. Nevertheless, as usual in the heroin business, more arrests also mean that pushers have...
...history of the U.S. The figure makes the two trials of California Mass Murderer Juan Corona ($4.6 million) and the "Hillside Stranglings" case of Angelo Buono ($1.6 million) seem like bargains. The Wayne Williams trial in Atlanta and the related police investigation into the slayings of 29 young blacks ran upwards of $2.5 million...