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...matter what the sheriff's office does there's a public backlash," says Roche. "It's true they may be somewhat na?ve in dealing with the media, and that may have contributed to their problems in the past, but in this case it seems they did what the families and the public wanted - they turned over the documents. This is a terribly complex case that any police force would have a hard time handling while keeping the public happy...
...seen a 69 percent return throughout the year," he says, noting that, like the stock market as a whole, his group's stocks have recently taken hits and subsequently recovered somewhat...
...decades, we had managed to reverse one of nature's most remarkable geomorphological phenomena. By the 1980s coastal Louisiana, instead of expanding in size, was disappearing under the Gulf at a rate of nearly 40 sq. mi. (100 sq km) a year. (The rate of land loss has declined somewhat since then; no one seems sure...
...measurements, and hope that I grew symmetrically. Of course, in the rapid-growth years of pre-adolescence, it was rare that I'd add inches in the arms, back and waist in the same proportions, and so the sweaters--while indisputably works of art--always ended up fitting somewhat oddly, designed for the creature I hadn't quite grown into. Over the years, the magic formula varied--two inches, half an inch, elastic--with the same tangible effect...
...Somewhat startled, Meijer held his ground. "Henry, if we don't acquire the ladder, it will end up in the bowels of the Smithsonian." To which, an annoyed Kissinger shot back, "That's a good place...