Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...district judge in New Orleans just cleared the way for a class action by three current smokers and the wife of a deceased smoker who claim that tobacco manufacturers hid the addictive properties of nicotine. If the suit proceeds, almost anyone who is "nicotine dependent" could join and seek up to $50,000 each from cigarette makers. Says Florida Governor Lawton Chiles: "It's time for the tobacco industry to take responsibility for the damage it does...
...three constantly vie for power in their flat, engaging in teasing sexual innuendo. These dynamics eventually spin out of control when, saddled with an extra room, they seek a fourth flatmate. After an interview which plays more like an interrogation, they settle on Hugo (Keith Allen), who manages to die of an overdose immediately after moving in, leaving a suitcase full of pound notes under...
Singapore authorities are on their way to Germany with an arrest warrant to seek extradition of the young stock trader whose extravagant gamble on the Tokyo market brought down Britain's oldest investment bank. Nicholas Leeson, a Briton who worked in Singapore, fled that country when his bet caused some $1 billion in losses for Baring Brothers & Co., after a drop in the Tokyo market last week. Police pulled him off a plane in Frankfurt last night and are detaining him. An extradition hearing before a judge is expected to take place tomorrow. TIME Bonn bureau chief Bruce Van Voorst...
Apparently, Jewett and others feel that if randomization is implemented, students will seek to circumvent it by transferring into other houses. To avoid this, they have suggested that students who wish to transfer should enter a lottery, in which they will be assigned--you guessed it--to a random house...
Weld's decision not to seek the presidency willlikely help the people of Massachusetts, saidState Rep. Alvin E. Thompson (D-Cambridge...