Word: waited
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...Northwest either forbid capital punishment or rarely use the laws on their books, in the South putting people to death has become a part of life. That is especially true in Texas, which has had 127 executions since 1976, almost a third of the national total. Today 448 people wait on death row in Texas. "If they keep going at the rate they're going," says Stephen Bright, "it won't be long before Texas will have executed more people than all the rest of the states put together. They execute so many people that nobody pays any attention...
...include Romania and Slovenia as well, the dispute is not critical. Fearing that including all five of the key nominees would make it harder to achieve the next round of NATO expansion, leaving countries like Albania out in the military alliance cold, Clinton wants to make two strong candidates wait. At NATO headquarters in Brussels, William Cohen was busy making that case on Thursday to Washington?s 15 NATO partners, who may have thought they had a say in the matter...
...right, and if you said "highly nervous and eccentric spelling master," you'd be even righter. Sealfon correctly spelled euonym (meaning: an appropriate name) to win the 1997 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee last week. The home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate. Her final nine-round spelldown with Prem Murthy Trivedi, 11, of Howell, N.J., ended after he put an extra l in the word cortile (that would be a courtyard). To Sealfon, whose shouted staccato spelling style was startling to the uninitiated, the whole experience...
...hope the investors who were unfortunate enough to own Bre-X Minerals shares [BUSINESS, May 19] followed the ever important rule: diversify. I can't wait for the book or, better yet, the movie about this rip-off. BRIAN VAN LEEUWEN Albuquerque...
This year was seen by many as a rebuilding year. Harvard hoped to solidify a core group of dedicated and well-conditioned swimmers, then wait for next year's large recruiting class to fill out the team...