Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three seniors who opted to compete all set personal bests on the day. Darin Shearer posted a time of 8:21.6 in the 3,000 meters, finishing third behind two unaffiliated runners. Ryan Trombly ran the 5,000 meters in 15:01, and John Greene set his personal best in the shot...
...SOON AS THEY SAW THE PLUME OF gas, the Mexican truck drivers leaped out of their cabs and ran for the American side of the border. Acrylic acid, a toxic chemical, had leaked from a tanker waiting in line for U.S. Customs inspection, and the liquid was vaporizing as it gathered in a noxious pool. It was "chewing holes in the pavement," says Lee Thompson, who saw it all happen in early November at the border station outside Laredo, Texas. His hazardous-materials response team, fortuitously on the scene for a training exercise, rushed to prevent the highly flammable acid...
Some theft is part of a wholesale pattern. At the Y&A Group, a defunct St. Louis, Missouri, engineering firm, former president Malcolm Cheek stole $600,000 through schemes like pledging company assets as collateral for loans that he pocketed. When he later ran into severe cash-flow problems, Cheek ransacked $254,000 from the 401(k) accounts in a last-ditch effort to cover his losses. Convicted last March, he is serving a nine-year prison term for fraud and embezzlement...
...phone trying to figure out what happened to my insurance and how I'm going to pay for this." He's still not sure. The Lindsays owe $150,000 in medical bills, for which they are suing the Aetna insurance company and the owners who ran Regina. And while Lindsay has found another job, his new health plan doesn't cover existing medical conditions for his children. "This should not happen," Lindsay says. "No executive should have the right to say, 'We're going to play with the company plan because we think we can work...
...says. When he arrived at her apartment, she showed him Elisa's motionless body. He put his hand to the child's cold forehead, pronounced her dead and spent the next two hours pleading with Awilda to call the police. When he finally called himself, he says, she ran to the apartment roof and had to be restrained from jumping. When the police arrived, she confessed to killing Elisa by throwing her against a concrete wall. She confessed that she had made Elisa eat her own feces and that she had mopped the floor with her head. The police told...