Word: six
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...purse, Matthew flung the bag into the river. Then McMahon, at Matthew's bidding, heaved the pistol 25 ft. away from the bridge into the muddy Pines River. That part of Matthew's story proved true. Police divers recovered the bag at the location Matthew, and then McMahon, described. Six days later, divers found a nickel-plated, snub-nosed .38 revolver whose registration number matched that of a pistol missing from the safe at Kakas & Sons furriers, where Charles worked...
...which connects an Exxon refinery with storage tanks, had a leak-detection system in place that flashed an alarm when the accident occurred. But instead of shutting down the pipeline, which would have kept the spill to a minuscule amount, employees failed to take the alarm seriously for nearly six hours. Reason: the safety system was known to be defective and had frequently sent out false alarms...
Ainslie points out that Sotheby's has made only six such loans on artworks worth more than $1 million. It was perception more than principle that prompted the auction house to abandon the practice. "Six clients don't & inflate a market," says Ainslie. "Do we regret ((the policy))? No. Are we changing because of the market's perception? Yes." He rejected any suggestion that Sotheby's was worried about losing business. "You don't grow from $400 million to nearly $3 billion in annual sales within five years if people don't have confidence in you," he says. Still, Ainslie...
...greater threat to us than anyone ever thought. Intelligent people now know that we are really in trouble." Or East-West relations: "Gorbachev has probably moved more quickly than any person in the history of the world. Moving faster than Jesus Christ did. America is always lagging six months behind...
...opera, community -- the other side doesn't have," says the woman on the train, the bright lights of West Berlin now behind her. "Our stores are not empty." She is 34, a technician for the state television network. Until November, she was last in the West when she was six. This night she has returned to West Berlin to go to a concert with a friend, her fourth visit since the Wall opened. Would she live in West Berlin or wish to see her city absorbed into some greater German nation? "Oh no, I love my country so much. Here...