Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Authorities still have no promising leads to the identity of the serial murderer who attacked mostly prostitutes and runaways. Their disappearances were sometimes not reported until years after they were killed. The lag time has frustrated investigators, who have spent $13 million in pursuit of the slayer since the first victim was found along the Green River near Seattle in 1982. Police cling to one consoling fact: they have found no victims murdered after 1984. Since such killers rarely quit, police hope this one is either dead or already in prison...
...fireplace; his lazy, lovable pet, Yellow Dog, dozes at his feet. An odor catches Andy's attention -- hmmm, something's burning. The master of this Vermont farmhouse eases on over to the hearth, extracts Yellow Dog's tail from the cinders and gently stubs it out like a spent cigar. The pooch barely opens one glazed eye. This scene, briefer than a minute, is a vagrant moment of unforced drollery in Funny Farm's carnival of sylvan horrors...
...Bullwinkle will stand 161 ft. higher than the world's tallest building, Chicago's Sears Tower, although only 262 ft. of the rig will poke above the waves. Seven tugboats spent three days towing Bullwinkle to its home, 150 miles southwest of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. When Bullwinkle reaches full production in 1991, its 50 wells will turn out 50,000 bbl. of oil a day, enough to make 2.1 million gal. of gasoline...
Although Anderson spent her early years in Massachusetts, her family moved to Georgia when she was 13. "I thought I wasn't going to like it, but I loved it," Anderson says. "I was kind of apprehensive about the whole thing. But I ended up really liking it. I liked the Southern mentality...
...Black women faculty members at Harvard, Herron serves as a frequent adviser to minority students. Often minority students come to her for advice not because they are interested in her area of expertise, literature, but because she is a role model. In addition, Herron says she has spent extra time expanding course offerings in her department, which is not a mainstream, fully developed department such as History or Government...