Word: sprees
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...parents and shooting 12 others in the room. Among those fatally injured were the Crown Prince's younger brother, Nirajan, and his sister Shruti. He then turned the revolver on himself, firing a .38-cal. slug up through his temple, the bullet exiting the other side. The shooting spree took less than 30 seconds...
...Killer Prince, Paras was involved in at least four hit-and-run fatalities and several incidents of discharging firearms in public places. Despite a public outcry last year, the King refused to revoke Paras' royal immunity from prosecution. The facts that Paras and his family emerged from the shooting spree virtually unscathed, and that it is his branch of the family that will benefit the most, have prompted much public frustration. Indeed, if the Crown Prince dies, as his critical condition presages, Paras' father--the current regent--is next in the line of succession, which means Paras would become Crown...
...details of Roach's white-collar crime spree--buying a $7,000 belt buckle, spending $30,000 on a London jaunt and missing her flight home in the process, jiggering her expense account and pawning her purchases in an attempt to hide her splurges--might and probably will provide fodder for a made-for-TV movie. And the ending will be, as demanded by the genre, upbeat. The employer Roach cheated paid her $150,000 a year. She now has a similar consulting job with another company and earns...
...profit - the 64-year-old Tchuruk has aggressively remade Alcatel since his arrival. Inheriting an unwieldy conglomerate with operations in everything from atomic power to vineyards, Tchuruk stripped the company down and shifted its focus squarely on the telecom business. Among his moves was to go on a buying spree in North America, snapping up seven companies including DSC Communications Corp., a midsized telecommunications equipment maker based in Dallas, Texas in 1998, and Newbridge Networks, a Canadian maker of data switches, last year...
With the price of oil and natural gas escalating, concerns about global warming rising and electricity markets deregulating, these onetime white elephants are starting to look more like cash cows. The Vermont battle, in fact, is just the latest stop on an industrywide shopping spree that is fueling a nuclear resurgence. By the end of the decade, new nuclear power plants could be sprouting up right here at home: the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has already approved the next generation of supposedly cheaper, safer plant designs...