Word: sprees
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That hopeful period ended when Tate, eight months pregnant, was murdered by followers of Charles Manson in 1969. Polanski spent the first years after her death on a kind of sexual spree, and began spending time with younger and younger women, like 15-year-old Nastassja Kinski...
...become. The reduction by three-quarters of a percentage point was the deepest since October 1984. Bernanke concluded a big dose was needed, fast, to stem a virtual free fall in global stock markets. On Jan. 21 and 22, investors around the world went on a panicked selling spree that resulted in heavy losses. London's FTSE 100 index fell 5.5% on Jan. 21, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell more than 13% in two trading sessions; Mumbai's Sensex dropped more than 12% over two days...
...took explosives to do what diplomacy couldn't: allow Palestinians to go on a shopping spree. The siege of Gaza, imposed by Israel and the international community after Hamas seized control of the Palestinian territory last July, ended abruptly before dawn on Wednesday when militants blew as many as 15 holes in the border wall separating the territory from Egypt. In the hours that followed, over 350,000 Palestinians swarmed across the frontier, nearly one fifth of Gaza's entire population...
...Suspicions that some Sarkozy positions were manifesting split personalities increased on Thursday night, when the president reversed a spree of uncharacteristic - and highly controversial - praises of religion by declaring his devotion to the French state's tradition of secularity. During a recent trip to Saudi Arabia - a country whose official Wahhabism has been criticized from abroad as extreme and intolerant - Sarkozy claimed to know of no country whose "heritage, culture, and civilization wasn't rooted in religion". That followed his comments in the Vatican in late December, where the President praised faith and extolled "France's Christian roots". But given...
...carried out in any given year. California's death row houses more than 660 prisoners, but no one has been executed in the state in nearly two years. Pennsylvania, with 226 inmates on death row, hasn't carried out a sentence since the '90s. In Florida a spree killer named William Elledge, who confessed to his crimes and has openly discussed his guilt in interviews, will soon complete his 33rd year on death row with his appeals still unresolved. Thirty-three years! He's one of about 55 men in Florida alone with more than 25 years on death...