Word: four
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...those who help someone commit a crime may be found as guilty as the actual perpetrator. Still, a jury could choose to convict only the gnasher on one of the meatier charges facing the pair, or a judge could decide to impose a more severe punishment. One of the four counts against each of the 21-year-old brothers, aggravated mayhem, carries a mandatory life sentence...
Another danger, particularly near San Francisco, is California's inexorable urge to build. Winiarski rightly calls the Napa Valley "a national treasure." Yet some county officials, mindful only of tax revenue and tourist dollars, want a four-lane highway to ease heavy weekend traffic and are openly sympathetic to developers who would perch condos on fragile hills overlooking the vineyards. On Nov. 6 voters approved Proposition J, which prohibits any change until the year 2020 in the county's general plan for preserving vineyards. Pessimists think it only a matter of time before the plan comes under renewed threat. "Once...
...four months since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the nation has been drifting amid vivid, dangerous possibilities, sleepwalking. It has been a long, strange time. Rarely before has a nation had such leisure for premeditation of war -- or for premonition of its consequences...
...hailed the latest ruling as a vindication of its First Amendment rights and began to air more Noriega phone calls. These conversations suggested that the prisoner was making surreptitious banking transactions, a charge filed by the Panamanian government in another court proceeding last week. Meanwhile, four competing news organizations rushed before Judge Hoeveler to request the transcripts of the phone calls...
...economy develops engine trouble, Detroit's automakers are among the first to pull over to the side of the road. True to that tradition, General Motors acknowledged last week that it was likely to report an operating loss for the fourth quarter, its first such deficit in four years. The world's largest auto company had operating income of $109 million in the third quarter before a $2.1 billion charge for plant closings pushed it into the red. GM attributed its latest problems to slack demand that has led the company to reduce its fourth-quarter car and truck production...