Word: reared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...River Grove, Illinois, a Chicago-bound commuter train plowed into a school bus filled with teenagers, killing seven students and injuring nearly 30 others. The bus had apparently come to a stop for a red light situated just beyond a railroad crossing, with the rear of the bus still extended over the tracks. An investigation is under...
...probably only a matter of time before Judge Lance Ito and Marcia Clark rear their fearsome heads, too. We'll check the Ticketmaster hot line and keep you posted...
Carver takes offense when critics try to link him to extremists, particularly white supremacists, and cites the fact that one branch of the Carver family helped rear George Washington Carver. "So black people are special to us," he says. He disavows fringe rhetoric but feels that as an elected official, he cannot discriminate against any audience just because its views are more extreme than his. Carver's policy: "If they pay for travel, if they give me a place to sleep, a hot dog to eat, I'll come. But I do not ally myself with any of them...
...contacting the women. Then-Vice Admiral Ronald Zlatoper, as chief of Navy personnel, approved the deal, which, according to Felix, included an unwritten agreement that Greene would not be promoted. But in March, Felix learned that a promotion board--headed by Zlatoper--had recommended that Greene be made a rear admiral. Feeling the Navy had failed to keep its end of the bargain, she began formal proceedings against her ex-boss. The Navy proposed settling the case with a private punishment--perhaps a permanent written reprimand in Greene's personnel file. Greene, however, chose to face the military tribunal...
...only thing they could have really pinned on him was conduct unbecoming of an officer, and even that was going to be hard to prove. The guy might have acted stupidly, but he is no crook." But Greene, who is up for a promotion to the rank of rear admiral, may well become the third Navy commander in recent months to have sex-related charges derail his career. "He'll never get the promotion now," says Thompson. "It is very political to get to the next stage, and he simply doesn't have the support of the Navy. Remember...