Word: scraps
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Then came His Honor's delayed pronouncement upon Darrow's motion to quash. Mr. Stewart had apologized to Mr. Hays and the courtroom tension had lowered, but when Defense-Counsel Malone heard the quasher denied he rightly forecast: "This is going to be a scrap from now on; a knock-down and drag...
...Roger," Husband responded. "Uh ..." All at once, communications were cut off as if by a knife, and with them went every other scrap of data coming down from the ship...
...officials felt no small amount of relief last week at the reception that John Roberts received when he made his trip into the liberal lion's den. Roberts emerged from Kennedy's office with his hide intact--and a map of Ireland. Sure enough, Kennedy had been assembling every scrap of information he could get about Roberts and had discovered that the ancestral home of Roberts' wife is a mere 10 miles from that of Kennedy's mother in Limerick...
...part of the country's Participating Police Force (PPF). Composed of officers from 11 Pacific nations, it's the law-and-order arm of the intervention force known as ramsi, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, that arrived two years ago to save a country heading for the scrap heap. Solomon Islanders were being killed and brutalized by rival militias, while a corrupt political and bureaucratic class, and a rogue Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIP) force, either stoked the hate or failed to stop...
...Exchange Commission is looking into whether there was any insider trading, and six shareholder lawsuits stemming from the stock drop have been filed. The company botched forecasts for home-video sales of Shrek 2 not once but twice, blowing its credibility on Wall Street and prompting the company to scrap a planned $500 million stock sale. "Are they rookies? Do they have any controls?" asks analyst David Miller at Sanders Morris Harris, echoing concerns of many investors...