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Stansky: I moved deliberately. I tried to pick times in the six-month period when people were thinking, Wow, everything is O.K. and I can get 6.7% or better on a yield, and I sold aggressively when the market gave me the chance to. I didn't want just to sell the bonds because they weren't mine. My money is in the fund. I want the best price for my sales and the best price for my purchases. Frankly, I think I did a pretty good job on it. I don't think I could have done a much...
...right time, and I happened to have the right combination of background." The place was CERN, the European physics laboratory that straddles the Swiss-French border, and he was there twice. The first time, in 1980, he had to master its labyrinthine information system in the course of a six-month consultancy. That was when he created his personal memory substitute, a program called Enquire. It allowed him to fill a document with words that, when clicked, would lead to other documents for elaboration...
Schaper, a troubled young woman who was fighting depression and rebelling against her devoutly Christian parents, ended up having a six-month relationship with Sergeant Paul Belisle, a married recruiter. By the time it was over, the teenager had contracted herpes and twice attempted suicide. After a six-month probe, the Army washed its hands of the messy affair on April 14, telling the Schapers that it had no legal responsibility for an out-of-control sergeant. But Belisle acknowledges that he brought a formidable weapon to his role as seducer. "I didn't realize how powerful the uniform...
...Globe for a $5,500 pay-off. Smith, 36, who made only $200 for the act that could get him 8 1/2 years in jail, stands accused of theft, tampering with physical evidence, obstruction of a federal investigation and false reporting. Sawyer, 38, who faces a possible six-month jail term, was charged with obstruction of justice and is currently cooperating with police in their ongoing investigation of the leak. The photographs showed the garotte used to strangle six-year-old JonBenet, a rope tied to her wrist and a scene of her body lying in the Ramsey living room...
Lamba had just completed an intense six-month internship in a city hospital in Florida. During that time, she had hoped to find out why she wanted to be a doctor...