Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simpson was physically capable of killing Nicole Brown Simpson in the manner the prosecution has proposed, according to his doctor, Robert Huizenga. Though Huizenga had described the ex-football star as a physical wreck, he nonetheless conceded that Simpson could have pulled back Nicole Brown Simpson's head with his left hand and slit her throat with his right. As the defense began its second week, testimony also focused on Simpson's cut finger, which the defense maintains was injured when the defendant broke a drinking glass in his Chicago hotel room upon learning of his ex-wife's death...
...contrast, Tull's friend Gwyn Barry, duller and less gifted, makes millions with two politically correct, feel-good novels. Tull, feeling only jealousy and hatred, attempts to wreck Barry's career and his posh life. The attempts backfire, however, providing a source for Amis' sardonic humor-his elaborate facade for intellectual disdain and largely unearned cynicism...
...dump a solid business like Du Pont, which throws off good dividends, and take on a much riskier investment in MCA. But then the press accounts of Edgar Jr. don't give him a lot of credit. They paint him as a Dan Quayle who is ready to wreck Seagram...
Even very sober public officials are deeply concerned. Three weeks ago, Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn sketched a lurid fantasy: how terrorists might wreck the central government of the U.S. On the night of a State of the Union address, when all the top officials are in the Capitol, Nunn said, a handful of fanatics could crash a radio-controlled drone aircraft into the building, "engulfing it with chemical weapons and causing tremendous death and destruction.'' This scenario, said Nunn, "is not far-fetched,'' and the technology is all readily available...
...bank from pulling out of the game altogether. "Barings' problem was that they wanted to be just a little bit pregnant," says an equity manager in Hong Kong. By 1993 Heath had resigned and the Tokyo operation had been through four top managers in three years. "They were a wreck," says a former Barings trader. "No one was really running the show." In time Leeson would take full advantage of that power vacuum...