Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year Beltrán accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Virginia and was away from Peru precisely six months and eleven days. Whereupon the government invoked a recent "freedom of the press" regulation that requires newspaper owners to live in the country continuously for at least six months a year. Technically a lawbreaker, Beltrán was ordered to sell his controlling interest in the paper...
...program. Aware that Ribicoff might well be the key to passage, Nixon quickly telephoned the Senator to assure him that he did indeed want it passed. HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson and Presidential Adviser John Ehrlichman called on Ribicoff to seek a compromise on their different approaches to reform, whereupon a pleased Ribicoff announced that "I'm enlisted in this fight for the duration...
...collecting damages, however. They agree that rivers and tracts of ocean should be privately owned, so that dumping wastes into them involves payment of damages to the owners. They believe that air pollution can best be controlled by showing correlations between different pollutants and the harms they cause, whereupon victims sue the polluters. Ultimately, though, their notions of the mechanisms involved differ, as well as the heaviness of the damages settlements...
...would leave the family in peace. That only enraged Frazier further; Ohta was offering the very material things he despised. Frazier pushed Ohta into the pool. When the doctor tried to get out, Frazier shot him. Then Frazier asked Mrs. Ohta if she believed in God. She said yes, whereupon Frazier replied, "Then you have nothing to be afraid of," shot her and threw her into the pool. He asked the same question of the secretary, got the same answer, shot her and put her into the pool. He performed no such ritual with the children but killed them straightaway...
...putting it into his coat and grabbed his arm telling him that I had no money or credit cards and would he please return the wallet. He replied "I don't have your mother-fucking wallet, lady." I told him I had seen him take it, whereupon he handed me a piece of paper which had been inside my wallet and said "Is this what you want, lady?" He then grabbed a friend and they started walking away toward Harvard Yard. I was not about to let him get away that easily with my wallet so I followed them while...