Word: ran
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...countries where the children end up may not know much more about the adoptions than the U.S. government. Britain's Department of Health, for instance, lists only one American adoption in the past year. Yet in 1992 the London Observer Magazine ran a cover story stating that "one of the most accessible places for intercountry adoption is, surprisingly, the United States." Craig Bluestein, a Pennsylvania attorney, says he has been receiving "a lot of England calls" lately. And while the Dutch government is aware of such adoptions, the Netherland's largest international adoption agency reports that there were...
...tarp won. Infield red clay turned to instant ooze. Game called. Ten grand or so in gate receipts and hot-dog sales down the drain. "That's life in the minor leagues," said one of the vanquished, assistant general manager Richard Lenfest, as rain ran down his legs and into his sneakers...
...naked capitalism of Woodstock '94 ran counter to the professed ideals of many of the musicians who played there. The roster included such "alternative" groups as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Porno for Pyros and Candlebox, which are supposed to be anti-commercialism. Some top alternative acts, such as Pearl Jam, rejected invitations to appear at Saugerties, as did rocker Neil Young, another of those who played the first Woodstock. The morals vs. money debate raged among fans. "I refuse to participate in something I believe is nothing more than making money off people's lust for the past," said graduate...
...training that focuses on detection and prosecution. That has paid off across the country, especially in the Los Angeles area, where authorities are now arresting nearly 40 phone defrauders a month -- up from just one offender a month two years ago. Among them: 29-year-old Rodney Phillips, who ran up $2 million worth of fraudulent calls from a home he had turned into a minifactory for snatching numbers. Police found more than 20 cellular phones there, along with two computers equipped with the software to reprogram them. L.A. law-enforcement officials also nabbed a suspect while he was casing...
Britton died last Friday with his liver whole. Moments after he and the elderly couple acting as his volunteer guards arrived in the parking lot of the Ladies Clinic of Pensacola, a gunman ran up to the driver's side of their blue pickup truck. The killer was no prudent sharpshooter: he got quite close with a 12-gauge shotgun and blasted the faces of the two men with round after round of buckshot...