Word: spates
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...Denial is nothing new for the notoriously hermetic state. Past cases of violence such as the 1997 shootings and a spate of bombings in Vientiane in 2000 have never been solved. Typically, authorities blame minority Hmong rebels opposed to the government, whether or not proof exists. This time, however, if the government and police muster up the will, they could make a stronger case. Survivors say the attackers looked Hmong and spoke the Hmong language. And one military officer claims the killers left a calling card lying on the European woman's corpse...
...includes a stadium-stepped, two-story arc display for shoes that integrates the shopper into the merchandise; technology is melded to the fitting rooms. Strictly speaking, it's not all that practical, but Koolhaas' design made the store a tourist stop. And that's part of the mission. "This spate of very cool, high-design boutiques is the offspring of promotion and the general hipness of design in recent years," says Ellen Ratchye-Foster, a trend analyst at Fallon Worldwide, an advertising agency. Hipness has a very high return on investment. Prada has reaped untold amounts of essentially free advertising...
...past two weeks, the SEC has issued a spate of new rules intended to prevent future Enron-style scandals. But under intense lobbying pressure from Wall Street as well as the accounting and legal professions, the commission has watered down or delayed some of these rules. For example, the SEC voted to allow accounting firms to continue to earn fat consulting fees from the companies they audit. And lawyers will be required to report any wrongdoing they witness to senior company executives but not to the SEC--as the SEC had initially proposed...
Jantzen also had two pins, including one over No. 6 Jeremy Spate from No. 16 Missouri, whom Jantzen defeated in just...
...SENTENCED. LUORANG DENGZHU AND ANGAG TASHI, two Tibetan men; to death by a Chinese court for their involvement in a spate of bomb blasts in a southwestern province bordering Tibet; in Garze Prefecture, Sichuan. Tashi, whose sentence has been suspended for two years, is an influential community leader who studied under the Dalai Lama...