Word: final
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...wake of the Gary Graham execution, which garnered significant international media attention, Bush may be quite pleased to relinquish control over these cases; with the governor on the national campaign trail, the responsibility for passing final review falls to Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry. Unfortunately for Bush, the long-term legal and moral questions (should mentally retarded inmates be exempt from capital punishment?) raised by Cruz's case will always end up back on his desk...
...fuel erupted in an instant inferno. All 100 passengers--mostly German tourists--and nine crew members were killed, along with five people who were in the small hotel the plane plowed into. It was the first fatal accident for a Concorde and--because the plane's final, desperate struggles were captured in dramatic photos and videotapes--a gripping reminder of how unforgiving the laws of physics...
Unlike many recent airliner crashes--most notably the crash of TWA Flight 800 four years ago last month--investigators seem likely to find a cause for the Concorde crash quickly. Both black boxes were recovered, and the wealth of witnesses should make it easy to reconstruct the plane's final moments. Just what went wrong with the left-side engines remains a mystery for now. Authorities will seriously look into the possibility that a blown tire on takeoff sent scrap rubber screaming into the engine inlets, triggering a fire. In 1981 the National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S. warned...
...crowd pleaser, though whether she will do any stumping of her own or merely accompany her mother on the New York trail is unclear. While sending Mom back to Washington is a top priority, Chelsea also hopes to spend some quality time with Dad, to "experience and enjoy the final months of her father's presidency." Dropouts beware: this excuse is nontransferable...
That's not the point, argues Kendall Ramirez of MutualMinds.com which also plans to use quantitative analysis. She says most fund investors want to have a voice but not the final...