Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Murphy and Kacyvenski were unable to explain the problem in the postgame press conference. In fact, both seemed shell-shocked...
...needed "a breather." Meanwhile, down in Chechnya his army was beginning to suffer severe casualties at the hands Chechen forces. And the Russian forces appeared to be racking up the collateral damage, too ?- 40 refugees fleeing the fighting were killed Tuesday when a bus was struck by an artillery shell, reportedly fired by a Russian tank. Moscow has dismissed the report as disinformation, but a New York Times reporter interviewed survivors and heard tales of indiscriminate Russian bombing...
...continued a habit he had taken up in college, asking strangers about their life: Excuse me, are you happy? Tell me your story. It was a way to learn about the world, a way to come out of his shell, a way to build his network of elite supporters. "One of the first things he did was ask me about my life," says John Roos, a Bradley fund raiser and partner at a powerful Silicon Valley law firm. "Who I was, what I thought was important. I was extremely surprised...
Auditing firms verify findings, but they don't interpret them--that's left to the public and activist groups. But what's acceptable? Shell reports that it voluntarily discharged just over 6,600 tons of oil into surface water in 1997, down from nearly 13,000 tons the year before. Is that an impressive improvement? Or is 6,600 tons still too much? Is there a permissible discharge level? And where did the discharges take place? What about emissions of greenhouse gases? Oil companies may brag about meeting tough targets on cutting emissions of carbon dioxide. But some advocacy groups...
...lackluster rookie Knicks season were hard. "But neither were as hard as when my wife developed breast cancer," he said. The disease was diagnosed in 1992, and Schlant underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy. Bradley became her secretary, taking notes in doctors' offices and making schedules for his shell-shocked wife. "I just remember his long arms around her, protecting her," says Betty Sapoch, Bradley's finance director...