Word: susan
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...treatment met the legal definition of torture.' SUSAN CRAWFORD, who oversees military trials at Guantánamo Bay, on why she halted the case of Mohammed al-Qahtani, a suspected 9/11 mastermind...
...Lois Nettleton, 82, was married to another midcentury comedy genius, radio spieler Jean Shepherd; but her forte, when she got the chance to display it, was in elevated drama: as Blanche in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, and in her Emmy-winning role as Susan B. Anthony in The American Woman: Portraits of Courage...
Unlike in the 1980s, when oil fell to $8 a barrel, Texas is not heavily dependent on its energy industry, so the state "should have more resistance to, but not immunity from, recessionary conditions," according to state comptroller Susan Combs. When the legislature convenes for its biennial session in January, Texas will have a big surplus, thanks in part to last year's booming oil and gas revenues - one of only nine states...
...Susan Docherty, the GM marketing executive responsible for selling the company's Buick, Pontiac and GMC brands, also tried to strike a positive note: "If you look at the brands I'm responsible for, our business was up 10% the first five months of the year," Docherty said. "It's frustrating," notes Docherty, adding the recession is speeding up the shutdown of dealerships. "We've got 6,100 dealers and we're going to go down to 4,500," she says. (See pictures of autoworkers...
...Greens from the Lettuce Patch Bank at the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in rural northeastern Missouri. In western Massachusetts one finds fine-artist-designed BerkShares, which are convertible to U.S. dollars. More than $2 million in BerkShares have been issued through the 12 branches of five local banks, according to Susan Witt, executive director of the E.F. Schumacher Society, the nonprofit behind the currency. And in South Africa, proprietary software keeps track of Community Exchange System (CES) Talents; one ambitious plan is to make Khayelitsha, a vast, desolate township of perhaps 1 million inhabitants near Cape Town, a self-sustaining community...