Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have seen McVeigh with an unknown second man on the day the bomb truck was rented. Nor apparently has the FBI shown the Jacques sketch to folks around Nichols' home in Herington, Kansas. There, Barbara Whittenberg remembers a Ryder truck pulling up in front of her Santa Fe Trail Diner a day or so before the bombing. "There was three gentlemen that came in and sat down and ordered coffee," she says. One, she says, was Nichols, another, McVeigh. "The one question I asked was where were they going. And the third person said, 'Oklahoma.'" The three left without breakfast...
...single most coveted stream of money at Penn is tuition because unlike federal grants, it is entirely "fungible"--it can be spent anywhere within the university on anything. It gets mixed with other fungible streams, like investment income, to the point where trying to follow the tuition trail becomes about as easy as tracking a particular cup of water through a faucet. It is almost impossible to say exactly what tuition pays for and what it doesn't, other than to say that it constitutes the major portion of the university's general fund and that anything paid for from...
...familiar with Marxism. "To Build a Fire": What drives the prospector to his death? "Money, Mr. Mayo. It's all money. Greed!" Fahrenheit 451: "Write a three-paragraph essay on why technology is out of control and needs to be reined in by strong, direct government action." The O.J. Trail: "Would this have happened in Massachusetts?" "No, Mr. Mayo!" Excellent, said Mr. Burns...
...Usually, the sentiment is that if you trail Princeton by eight or ten points, forget it," Sullivan said. "With their ball control and significant defense, they will not allow you to get back. To close to within four is commendable. Kyle was outstanding down the stretch in that game...
...scandal over foreign donations to the Democratic Party. It's all in a month's work for Weisskopf, who in 19 years at the Washington Post garnered a fistful of journalism honors, including Pulitzer nominations and a George Polk Award. He was well prepared to follow the Asian money trail with the fluent Mandarin he perfected in two tours in Beijing--from 1980 to 1985, and again in 1989 to cover the Tiananmen uprising...