Word: slews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even chose to be castrated. (Law enforcement officials in California reported Friday that about six of the males who committed suicide at Rancho Santa Fe, including Applewhite, had been surgically castrated some time ago.) Nettles died of cancer in 1985. By the late '80s, the cult had lost a slew of members. This was when Applewhite turned to the Internet to gather a new flock. One of the newest converts was Yvonne McCurdy-Hill, a 39-year-old Cincinnati woman. She left behind five children in September to join the cult and was one of the 39 who used pills...
...paper, not what's wrapped inside, that makes cigarettes deadly. In just five months, shares of the nation's biggest tobacco company, Philip Morris (Marlboro), have risen 47% while shares of No. 2, RJR Nabisco (Winston, Camel), have jumped 39%. Sure, the industry just won a slew of important court cases. But that's hardly news. Big Tobacco has been snuffing out liability claims in the courts for decades. What's new is a persistent buzz that some kind of deal is in the works to end tobacco litigation. Such a deal would unshackle tobacco companies from the ball...
COLUMBUS, Ohio: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. says it's "on your side." But according to a slew of lawsuits and the testimony of at least six Nationwide agents, it depends which side you're on. Residents in seven states have filed lawsuits accusing the company of "redlining," in other words refusing to insure people who live in certain undesirable locations. "They wrote out zip codes where agents weren't allowed to pursue business," said Shanna Smith, executive director of the National Fair Housing Alliance, which has been investigating Nationwide since 1991. Those addresses were almost exclusively neighborhoods dominated by blacks...
...surely this experiment is flawed, you say. If you neglect your responsibilities, won't people start to miss you? Most students who spend all day in the library or in Guam would return home to a slew of answering-machine messages. If you're the stage manager of a play, a reporter for the paper or if you were supposed to build a homeless shelter or organize the International Stomach Acid Convention that day, won't a few directors, editors and bile enthusiasts begin to wonder where you went...
...ring fingers of rocker TOMMY LEE and his pneumatic spouse PAMELA ANDERSON. The Baywatch staple is divorcing the man she wed on a beach 21 months ago, after a relationship that had stood the test of five days' time. Their marriage produced one son Brandon and a slew of photographs of the happy couple kissing. The two had recently been in court trying to stop distribution of a video of their more intimate activities, which they say was stolen from their home. The reason for the split: those darn "irreconcilable differences" again...