Word: wrung
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...incredulous, a people armed principally with courage and determination (and a few filched guns) fought one of the most spectacular revolutions of modern times. Behind barricades, from rooftops and apartment windows, they harried their powerful oppressors in the classic revolutionary manner, and at week's end they had wrung from the most ruthless of modern despotisms a promise of the right to be free. Havana, Cuba Dec. 9, 1957 Actually, the top leadership of the running rebellion is so prosperous, conservative and respectable that amused Habaneros are calling it "the best-dressed revolution in history." Of the chief rebel plotters...
...years for his 19 out of 28 guilty counts - including conspiracy, securities and wire fraud. ?It was a moral victory. Now we hope to get them an economic victory,? said Steve Berman, one of the attorneys representing pensioners ruined by Enron?s demise. In addition to $7.2 billion wrung out of banks like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup in securities fraud litigation, employees are still waiting to get $260 million for lost benefits...
...takeovers. But the European Commission questioned that policy this year, putting Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio on the defensive. The attraction for foreigners: Italy's banking sector is highly fragmented and not very competitive, according to Credit Suisse First Boston, meaning that greater efficiencies - and profits - can be wrung out of them. Lucky Break? Frankfurt prosecutors called off a probe into six Citigroup traders accused of manipulating the European government bond market last August, although a change to Germany's law made since could now make such trades illegal. Financial watchdogs elsewhere in Europe are still investigating...
DEFENSE'S STRATEGY Jackson's lawyers, left, will grill the boy's mom, whose first call after the alleged abuse was to a lawyer who had wrung a big settlement from Jacko over similar charges...
...Hallelujah, but its eclecticism ruined its chances of getting noticed in the grunge era. When Buckley died, his fans mourned mostly what might have been. Now a cottage industry of Buckleyana has bloomed to fill the void: Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (1998), a two-disc set wrung from the Grace follow-up sessions; Mystery White Boy (2000), a live album; a five-CD Grace EPs boxed set of foreign releases (2002); a CD of loose ends titled Songs to No One 1991-1992 (2002); a two-disc Live at Sin-é DVD of coffeehouse footage (2003); and, just...