Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hours before the execution, waiting for phone calls from Prejean's lawyers at his desk in the executive mansion. "I'll be here," he said in advance. "Not liking it. But ready to do my duty." Shortly before 10 p.m., attorney Andrea Robinson called Roemer to make her final appeal: "I told the Governor I wasn't there to make legalistic arguments, but that we were killing a child...
...useless, but he soon relented. There is no record of that conversation. Earlier in the week, though, Prejean had explained what he desperately wanted to tell Roemer. "I'd like to have a chance at life," he said in slow, simple sentences. "To live with my mistakes. We all make mistakes in life. Some bigger than others. I'd like to give something back to society. I've changed. There's a whole difference between being...
...tsubame (swallow) did not make this spring. Twelve of the 70 works in the Sotheby's sale failed to reach their reserves and went unsold. On the night of the Van Gogh sale at Christie's, a Manet, The Bench, made only $16.5 million -- not chickenfeed, but still a disappointment considering Christie's presale estimate of $20 million to $25 million. In addition, an exceptional 1925 Mondrian made $8.8 million; Christie's estimate had been $12 million to $16 million...
...least part of the blame for the gap on disappointing first-quarter profits reported by many small and medium-size companies. Moreover, investors remain uncertain about prospects for the U.S. economy. In response to such concerns, they have sought security by buying and hoarding the blue-chip stocks that make up the Dow index...
...year-old man with black hair and gray skin is complaining of sharp stomach pains. He is HIV positive and taking AZT. "That's what someone looks like who's going to die soon," Dr. Michael Bourland explains quietly as he moves on. Doctors here agree that they make the vast majority of their decisions within the first 15 seconds of seeing a patient. But some things simply demand more time. When a patient cannot be saved, Dr. Bourland says, "you have to go tell the family that their loved one died, and you know that you only have about...