Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eighth Amendment forbids "cruel and unusual punishments." Some of the witnesses last week thought the cyanide, which took some minutes to kill Harris, was barbaric. That is an insult to centuries of creative barbarians, who have administered capital punishment by boiling in oil, burning at the stake, flaying to death, crushing, impaling, drowning, crucifying, drawing and quartering, disemboweling, gibbeting, garroting, throwing to lions and much, much worse. Cyanide, by comparison, is a sweet pink poof of cessation. Would last week's witnesses have been happier if California had used a neat bullet to the base of the brain (the method...
...automobile steering wheels and then go limp, making it difficult for police to remove them. When arrested, they usually refuse to give their names -- and they are more than willing to do jail time since that puts a financial burden on local law-enforcement systems. The Lambs will stake out the neighborhood where a clinic doctor lives, informing one and all that the practitioner is a "babykiller." They have offered money and shelter to pregnant women, asking that they forswear abortion...
Tristar was highly successful. When Aeneas soldits stake in the company to ColumbiaPictures--later acquired by the SonyCooperation--Several years later, it did so at asubstantial profit...
...Wall Street Journal reported that Aeneas'nearly $52 million investment in the oil and gasexploration firm was written down to just over $28million in 1991. Eisenson said that Aeneas hassold some of its stake in Harken, adding that themarket value of Harvard's current shares exceedstheir original cost. Still he noted, if Harkenstock drops in price, Aeneas could stand to losemoney on its investment...
...answers to the problems of deciding complex sexual misconduct cases do not lie in simple reformulations of board definitions. True reform is called for--reform the council is unwilling to recommend, Nonetheless, the Ad Board cannot continue to face disciplinary matters without public scrutiny. Too much is at stake for their decisions to be completely closed ones...