“Even though people said it was only driving offenses, I knew they were going to keep me in for years, which is exactly what happened. They kept me [in prison] for two-and-a-half years, pulling all my charges on me.” This February, Walker was arrested in Bournemouth, on the sout...
Shortly after Robert Maxwell’s death, it was discovered that he had plundered hundreds of millions of dollars from his employee pension funds in the U.K. to prop up his crumbling business empire. His two sons, Kevin and Ian Maxwell, were tried for fraud in connection to the pension money...
Mostly, I’m so glad there was no inconsistency, bureaucracy or confusion involved in my applicationto continue driving a residential automobile. And I’d like to extend special thanks to my mom for almost getting my driving privileges revoked over a color hue detail {Just kidding, Mom. Sort ...
"When I said to her, 'I called the police. Sit down in that chair. They're on their way.' She just looked at me and she ran right out the door," he said. Colletti said it was then that he noticed an Asian man in his 30s driving a black SUV. "I could see a car come ...
(A suspected criminal is detained by the police and probably under close arrest.) A large accident (= the explosion of a nuclear power station) Armed emergency (= a small-scale war in which large numbers of people are being killed, buildings destroyed, etc.) under-achiever ...
sucking vigour from its vitality --- When an old person wants to be young-at-heart by indulging himself in the good old days, he is simply trying to go south by driving the chariot north. callous --- unkind or cruel; without sympathy or feeling for other people It might sound callous...
So, popes are holy. But there’s a bit of majesty in them, too. For a long time, infallible popes were also effectively the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, an area that stretched from Rome to the Baltic Sea. Wars and intrigue gradually chipped away at the Empire. The establishment of...
I am pointing out that it is a game that can only be played once a great many shared values have been stamped into the people who then govern themselves. Getting them to this stage took centuries in Britain. All over the world, the process of nation-building almost always includes at ...
When Don Foss started his career as a car salesman, he recognized early on that most of his prospective customers had shaky credit, leaving them with few options for financing to buy a vehicle. So in 1972, he started subprime auto lending company Credit
We should have done a better job reaching out to Hispanic voters. We should have done it earlier. And in a more effective way.” TOP TALKER – 102-story “Empire State Building surprises NY with new...