Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barely five hours after we landed in our hometown of Durban, a dinner at a relative's house was interrupted by a phone call. We were told that a woman in the neighborhood had been murdered. A thief had apparently broken into a home a few blocks away, unexpectedly ran into one of the owners of the house, and strangled her. He committed his crime quickly, cleanly. It might have taken place in any of the nearby houses, including the one where I had stayed...
...Norway is simply defying the wishes of the IWC," said Christine Stevens, president of the Animal Welfare Institute, the corporation that ran...
...definitely the end of one phase and thebeginning of another," says Robert B. Zevin, anHRAAA member who ran unsuccessfully for the Boardof Overseers in 1989. "Many of us who were urgingdivestment up until this point will now be askinginstitutions like Harvard to consider positivesteps they can take to support economic andpolitical democracy in South Africa...
Last year, the Crimson played the entire first half of the contest evenly with the Tribe until William and Mary blocked a Harvard field goal attempt in the final seconds of the second quarter and ran it back for a touchdown. After that, the Tribe controlled the rest of the game...
...good deal about the way journalists live now. It reminds us yet again of the death of the press lords -- the Hearsts, the Luces, the Lord Copper of Evelyn Waugh's barely fictional Fleet Street -- men who knew their own opinions and imposed them on the media they ran. Rupert Murdoch, buccaneer owner of Fox and much else of the world's communications business, seemed to be a throwback to those spacious days (spacious for owners). But even his empire is so segmented and authority in it so delegated that the people who run its component parts have to call...