(1) But it made sure there weren’t surprises like this one: when Natalie Burg, of Michigan, was newly married, she discovered that adding a rider for maternity coverage would more than double the cost of her health insurance, from $120 a month to more than $300.
(2) ‘You help us and we’ll take care of you’: a windfall of abuse hits minorities in the Windy City – and Lee Harris Facebook Twitter Pinterest The notoriously abusive Chicago police officer Jon Burge (top) was released on Friday.
(3) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
(4) The funds will be used to pay up to $100,000 per individual for living survivors with valid claims to have been tortured in police custody during Burge’s command.
(5) They didn’t fully address Mr Burge’s queries and their tone was not appropriate.
(6) On the other hand, the theoretical values of these ratios were calculated by inserting the geometrical parameters describing the shapes and the sizes of the body and the tail of individual organism into the equations previously derived for the hydrodynamic model of the propulsion of flagellated bacteria (Holwill and Burge, 1963; Chwang and Wu, 1971).
(7) There were no recurrent ulcers in those who had peroperative Burge tests, although secretory studies showed no difference between those tested and those not tested.
(8) On February 9, in Florida, Burge was confronted once again by his old legal nemesis, attorney Flint Taylor, for a deposition in one of the sprawling torture cases his police legacy spawned.
(9) Harlemites wanted to get back to “real” Africa, yet Africans back home in Jo’burg dreamed of Harlem.
(10) The Burge test produced 2 false negative results and 3 false positives.
(11) A Newham council spokesman said: “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mr Burge following his tragic death.
(12) Burge, 66, who lived in a lodge at the City of London cemetery, wrote to the council telling them he was “depressed, stressed and suicidal”, saying: “I have no savings or assets.
(13) From 1972 through 1991, Burge and officers under his command tortured more than 100 African Americans.
(14) Three digital spectrum estimators, Fast Fourier Transform, Burg autoregressive method, and minimum variance method, were slightly more accurate than the zero crossing detector (0.984 less than or equal to r less than or equal to 0.994), especially at points close to the walls and with higher levels of turbulence.
(15) Newham council admitted a failure to deal with Malcolm Burge’s benefit issue because of the backlog of cases after the change.
(16) But they were assigned to different police areas: Burge at Area 2 on the south side, Zuley on the north side at what was alternatively known as Area 6 and Area 3.
(17) Horace Rumpole had, like all great fictional characters, been composed from fragments of the real people John had worked with, his father, and James Burge (a mercurial Old Bailey junior who never quite recovered from the professional consequences of defending Stephen Ward during the Profumo scandal in 1963) and Jeremy Hutchinson, a mighty defence silk married at the time to Peggy Ashcroft.
(18) In our submission to the coroner we acknowledged delays and deficiencies in our extensive correspondence through letters and phone calls with Mr Burge.
(19) Chicago city council voted to award a total of $5.5m to help survivors, almost all African American men, who were mistreated in a long episode of police brutality that ran throughout the 70s and 80s under Jon Burge.
(20) Pressure has mounted on Emanuel to confront police violence as reports in the Guardian about a secretive Chicago police facility known as Homan Square collided with activism around the Burge torture regime during his mayoral runoff election .
Burgomaster
Definition:
(n.) A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.
(n.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.