Word: rows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backlog of murderers on death row in 1997 is helping to make this a record-setting year. Congress is getting in on the act too, by cutting legal aid for appeals. In the absence of any politician who dares supportthem, the dead men are increasingly walking the fast track to meet their makers...
...Amish carpenters and 55 Amish and Mennonite farmers raised the Clinic for Special Children. Wielding sledgehammers, Douglas fir timbers and stout oak pegs, they framed the post-and-beam building by the end of the day. "Now when Jake's mules turn at the end of a row," says Morton, "he often looks to see if I am at my laboratory window. He has grandchildren with the disease I'm studying, and we both hope they can live to work in the field...
Jeff Bagwell can tell you all about being hit by a pitch. He had a bone in his left hand broken three years in a row. That hasn't stopped him from crowding the plate in that squatty stance and sending balls into orbit that the Johnson Space Center ends up tracking. Of course, baseball isn't as exciting as figuring out what's going to explode next...
...Justice," which is being offered for the second year in a row, lost nearly 100 students since last fall, and fell from second to third in the pack...
WASHINGTON: At this rate, only lottery winners will be able to send their kids to college. For the fifth year in a row, America's private and public schools have stuck it to Mom and Dad by hiking tuition nearly 5 percent ? that's triple the rate of inflation. The increase adds between $136 and $670 per year onto tuition costs ? making $3,000 the norm for public schools, while those who wish to be privately educated face a nose-bleedingly high $13,000 per year. Factor in room, board and expenses, and the total cost of college hits about...