Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forbes' vaunted optimism, like F.D.R.'s, springs from the security and confidence that seem his birthright. Yet F.D.R.'s smile told Americans that we could face adversity, and triumph. Forbes' smile comes without the challenge. Leona Helmsley once ran hotel ads telling customers not to put up with anything she wouldn't. 'I've never had to make a hard choice," Forbes seems to say, similarly. "Why should...
...delivered nothing. Three weeks ago, he ordered an official to broadcast the names of 1,000 citizens who should come to the National Palace to receive a $30 handout, worth a month's wages. Within hours a huge crowd mobbed the gates, demanding envelopes of cash. When the money ran out, hundreds invaded the Palace until police reinforcements forced them...
...ADMIRERS BACK IN NIGERIA, Olushina Adekanbi, 36, was revered as the "King of New York." U.S. law-enforcement officials were less adulatory. They knew the dapper Nigerian as a man of more than two dozen aliases who allegedly ran the largest ring of credit-card thieves in the U.S. Authorities busted Adekanbi last September on credit-fraud charges. Then last week, after a five-month investigation, they brought some 200 counts against the still-jailed Adekanbi and seven other Nigerians, including Adekanbi's wife Mary. The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years. "We've broken...
TIMOTHY PASTUCK 49, NEW YORK CITY: Limo driver Awakened by Melida Menzies' distraught daughter, Pastuck called 911 and ran to his neighbor's apartment to find what he described as a slaughterhouse: Menzies' boyfriend Efraim Correa beating her with a baseball bat. Pastuck rushed to get his rifle. When he returned, he said, he ordered Correa to stop, and shot him when Correa refused. Menzies, badly bruised, has thanked Pastuck, and authorities have dropped gun charges against him. The injured Correa faces attempted-murder charges...
Never denying that he ran several negative ads throughout Iowa, Forbes apologized to the public for attacking his opponents so zealously and promised to focus more on the issues in upcoming weeks...