Word: stayed
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...reason Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis was the privacy that his immense wealth could offer her. In her later years, she finally got a court order against one of her most persistent stalkers. Her son John has a permanent blockade outside his apartment so that photographers have to stay a humane distance away as he and his wife, herself a constant target, come...
...Olympiad at the same time as the country undertakes austerity measures necessary to qualify for European Monetary Union. ?The organizers have adopted a Spartan $1.7 billion budget, saying they reject the over-commercialization of the Games,? says Carassava. ?But it remains to be seen whether they?ll manage to stay within that budget and not add to the burden of an already cash-strapped city.? Because as many previous host cities can testify, from a financial angle hosting the Games can be something of a Greek tragedy...
...last hit on a sure-fire PR coup: They're blasting Boris Yeltsin's trusty military advisor into space. Yuri Baturin, secretary of the Defense Council and high-profile cheerleader for the country's troubled space program, will make the trip to Mir some time next year for a stay of unspecified duration. And, by all accounts, he's raring to go. The physically fit, 48-year-old Baturin has already performed a few "aerobatic maneuvers" on a supersonic SU-30 fighter and has undergone survival training in case the capsule bringing him home misses its mark. Any worries about...
...package. So far, he's worked out a plan to adopt both his Aunt Hilda and the gardener as a way of getting the full tax credit for children, but he's terribly concerned about whether the way the law is written makes it more sensible for him to stay alive for another 10 years, until the estate-tax provisions take full effect, or to reconstitute his estate into a family farm and go ahead and die right...
Apparently, when wardens capture a bear that has been troubling tourists, they try to condition the bear against such behavior by setting off firecrackers and spraying the bear with pepper spray. While doing that, the wardens costume themselves as tourists, since bears in Banff National Park tend to stay away from wardens, whom they recognize by their uniforms...