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True enough. Sanders filed to divorce Zsa Zsa and she then cross-complained, whereupon the judge ruled "ladies first" and granted her an interlocutory decree on April...
...undoing. While he did oust some corrupt officials and sold off union jets and limousines after his 1991 election, insiders say he also readily cut deals with Old-Guard Teamsters leaders. In one such move, Carey withheld his support from a Washington local that was battling corrupt officials--whereupon the 3,500-member group quit the union. "Carey turned on his friends and made deals with the devil," says Arthur Fox, former attorney for a group of dissident Teamsters drivers. "Then when he needed support from those who got him elected, they were gone...
...company public offers it $12 a share, then prices the stock to the public at $15. Theoretically, some of that $3 a share could be the company's. So the stock hits NASDAQ via the traditional underwriting route at $15, then races to $18, or $20, or higher. Whereupon those retail investors who come in late at $22 watch the stock's grim slide back down to $14. "It's a sinister game that is played very, very intelligently by the banks and their preferred customers," says Klein. "You talk to these companies right after an IPO, and they feel...
...lull of more than 20 years, NASA is poised to resume exploration of the Red Planet as the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft prepares for a July 4 touchdown. Making a whimsical entry, the half-ton lander will approach the surface at 1pm EST at about 55 miles per hour, whereupon a bubble pack will absorb the brunt of the impact, sending the lander bouncing like a basketball up to the height of a four-story building until it settles safely on the planet surface. A small rover named Sojourner (24.5 inches long by 18.7 inches wide) will then emerge to study...
...long neural tubes (out of which the brains develop), removing cells from the chickens and replacing them with corresponding cells from the quail. Closing up the windows, he returned the chicken eggs to the incubator, allowing them to hatch at a normal 21 days, whereupon they soon began crowing...