Word: sprees
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Whatever Hale's intent, his followers are not famous for restraint. In 1999, days after Hale was denied a license to practice law in Illinois because of his racist views, Ben Smith, one of his most devoted aides, went on a three-day shooting spree, killing two and wounding nine--all minorities--before killing himself. Hale was never charged in connection with the murders...
...Rashodi has plenty of company. While many Saudis soured on al-Qaeda after the violence struck home with a terror spree starting in May 2003, a poll published last year said 48.7% still had a positive opinion of bin Laden's rhetoric. Al Awdah, the radical sheikh who has joined with bin Laden in political causes in the past, continues to rail against social reform in Saudi Arabia, saying there is "no place for secularism in the Muslim world" and calling attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq "a religious duty...
...Riverside—the area bounded by Mass. Ave., the Charles River, John F. Kennedy Street, and Central Square—rates of vandalism fell for the third year straight, down from 85 incidents in 2001 to about half that number in 2004, despite a September tire-slashing spree targeting police cars. Housebreaks rose from...
...shopping spree? In part, it's a self-perpetuating cycle. Once a few big companies in an industry join forces, everyone else feels compelled to hook up. (In consumer products, the betting now is that Kimberly-Clark and Colgate will be next.) The buying binge is also being fueled by rising stock prices--and the loads of cash piling up on corporate balance sheets. The S&P 500 is up 40% from its 2002 low, and companies in the index are sitting on $2.3 trillion in cash. Writing dividend checks is one way to spend the largesse. Microsoft paid...
...These allegations are a major embarrassment for Seoul, which has downplayed human-rights concerns in the interest of improving relations with Pyongyang. North Korea engineered a spree of abductions in the 1970s and '80s, seizing South Koreans, Japanese and a handful of other foreign nationals. In 2002, North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Il apologized to Japan for kidnapping 13 of its citizens and later released five surviving abductees...