Word: victors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seconds later, the door was locked and barricaded and another horde (Grays Middle, I presume) arrived. Their overzealous prefect Victor made his way inside and starting busting some heads. There's a new sherriff in town, boys...
...organizations have been investing finances in shareholding companies, joint ventures, commercial banks and other commercial structures of various kinds," according to an announcement by the Soviet State bank, which last week froze all party funds. The bank itself may have been involved. The Russian Information Agency reported that chairman Victor Gerashchenko, who originally was fired last week for supporting the coup but then was reinstated, asked a U.S.-based firm to convert 500 million party rubles into dollars. The company refused...
...Vice President's proposals, such as a societal emphasis on mediation over litigation, can be embraced by everyone other than the most self-protective attorney. Others are intriguing, such as his advocacy of the English system, in which the loser in a civil suit is required to pay the victor's legal bills...
...hour gathering morels for wholesale buyers from Seattle and Vancouver, "they went crazy," says Aaron Schutt, 18, a waiter and part-time mushroomer. Morel hunters in the Land of the Midnight Sun have an edge. "It doesn't get dark, so people are picking all night," notes Victor Marteddu of Vancouver, who bought up 1,800 lbs. of morels in just three days...
...trouble with this story is its predictability. Act I: boy and girl meet querulously. Act II: they love rapturously, and that sends Victor's leukemia into remission. Act III: illness returns, love falters, but everyone eventually learns to face an unknowable future with a certain fortitude...