Word: unraveling
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...life began to unravel in late June, when her 14-year-old brother Abdul Shakoor was seen walking with his lover, an older girl from the more powerful caste. According to police, the girl's uncles kidnapped Shakoor, beat him up, sodomized him and held him captive in a family compound. The next day, Shakoor's uncle tried to get him released by proposing a formal panchayat. A council was formed by three members of each clan group. After hearing testimony it came to a decision: that Shakoor should marry his girlfriend, and one Tatla girl should be given...
...descends into a surreal, Oedipal nightmare of guilt and paranoia, eerily coming to resemble his dead father as he struggles to run the household and the pachinko business. Kazuki is so frazzled he can't even get around to disposing of the corpse; as his mind begins to unravel, he desperately concludes more killing may be necessary to conceal the dead body rotting in a vault filled with gold...
...Andersen testimony will be helpful. Duncan told jurors he didn't believe the $1 billion loss the company took to unravel some off-the-books partnerships was enough reason to question Enron's future health. If Andersen's lead accountant wasn't worried, why should Lay have been concerned? "Duncan definitely harmed the case against Lay," says former prosecutor and Houston securities lawyer Christopher Bebel. On the other hand, he says, lower-level Enron executives facing charges won't find much solace in the transcripts...
Herce (12-2) struck out eight before he began to unravel in the seventh. By that point, Rice had pushed six runs across the plate. Hordon gave up consecutive singles to start the fifth, setting the stage for an RBI groundout by WAC Player of the Year Vincent Sinisi that gave Rice a three run lead...
Herce struck out eight before he began to unravel in the seventh...