Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Detective Mark Fuhrman -- one of the key prosecution witnesses -- hit a photographer who tried to take his picture at Spokane International Airport on Wednesday evening. Fuhrman was looking for a house in Sandpoint, a resort community some 100 miles from Spokane, Wash. As photographer Dan McComb snapped away, Fuhrman shouted: "Get out of my face," grabbed him by the shirt-front and pushed him to the ground, according to an account in The Spokesman-Review, the photographer's employer. McComb had four buttons ripped from his shirt but was not injured.The O.J. Files
...promising advertisers an optimistic 7 rating (nearly what Fox now averages in a typical week), largely because of high expectations for its Star Trek series. Warner, which has confirmed only 43 affiliates thus far but says more will be on board by launch time, has had to resort to cable -- it will be carried on superstation WGN -- to boost its coverage to 72% of the country...
...Alpine resort of Chamonix, where he had gone to spend Christmas at his chalet, Prime Minister Edouard Balladur, a man dogged by a reputation for avoiding difficult calls, faced an agonizing decision. Expected soon to announce his presidential candidacy, he stood to see his front-runner status compromised should any operation ordered by him turn into a debacle. Yet he had to take action. On Christmas morning Balladur flew to Paris and took personal responsibility for managing the crisis...
...does not need to resort to intimidation, however, to have an overwhelming influence. It sponsors most of the nation's dog shows, events that reinforce the insidious notion that beauty is a dog's paramount virtue. It also keeps track of purebred pedigrees, yet it requires no proof of good health to certify an animal. All it takes to get AKC certification is proof of pedigreed parentage. Says Fox: "The best use of pedigree papers is for housebreaking your dog. They don't mean a damn thing. You can have an immune- deficient puppy that is about to go blind...
...Shar-Peis that sets them up for rashes. For another, the best way to produce a puppy with a specific look is to mate two dogs who have that same look. As with any species, though, the closest resemblances are found among the closest relatives. So breeders often resort to inbreeding, the mating of brothers and sisters or fathers and daughters. Or they "line-breed," having grandparents mate with grandchildren or cousins with each other. "If we did that in humans," says Mark Derr, who wrote a scathing indictment of America's dog culture for the March 1990 Atlantic Monthly...