An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

Undoubtedly, there was a good deal of gambling in both.

He was sure that he could do better if he went to Atlanta to get the deal financed.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

We will deal first with the program in the Congo though this was put into operation later than the other.

( 1 ) A great deal of time was spent on processes for solving marital differences.

A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.

Smith's first workout with stresses, pitches, and junctures was based on mother, which spells, in our culture, a good deal more than bread alone.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

`` This deal at Las Putas Buenas where the two knife-men jumped you '', said Rourke with interest, `` that sounds like it was set up with malice aforethought by the luscious Mrs. Peralta, doesn't it ''??

That was more like a thought, but not a great deal more.

They breakfasted together, but Martin did not refer to his triumph, and Dolores found a great deal to do in the kitchen, bobbing up and down from the table so that talk was impossible.

`` I did not perceive this essential distinction either, First-Born '', Hesperus said at once, `` I was only practicing a concept that Jack taught me, called a deal ''.

Finally a deal was reached in 1881 and the Ainu decided to settle in the village of Yavin.

In the east the Empire was overrun by the Seljuk Turks ; from the north Bulgarians and Vlachs descended unchecked to ravage the plains of Macedonia and Thrace, and Kaloyan of Bulgaria annexed several important cities, while Alexios squandered the public treasure on his palaces and gardens and attempted to deal with the crisis through diplomatic means.

Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions.

The year 1166 was relatively quiet, but Amalric sent envoys to the Byzantine Empire seeking an alliance and a Byzantine wife, and throughout the year had to deal with raids by Nur ad-Din, who captured Banias.

Counting on the Bastarnae, with whom he had forged friendly relations in earlier times, he plotted a strategy to deal with the Dardani and then to regain his lost territories in Greece and his political independence.

Alberic also forged an alliance with the Dukes of Burgundy, working out a deal with Duke Odo the donation of a vineyard ( Meursault ) as well as stones with which they built their church.

To avoid the takeover, CCC forged a deal with CDC lending them the money to purchase control in CCC instead, and " That is how a computer company came to own a fleet of fishing boats in the Chesapeake Bay.

* Joel Wachs, Los Angeles City Council member who forged a deal to bring the sports arena to L. A.

Under the deal, Nelson also distributed the films on video in North American markets, and handled international theatrical distribution, while Columbia, which Nelson forged a distribution deal with, would receive domestic theatrical distribution rights.

Moreover, Overbeck and Dent, in a statement before the Royal Colonial Institute on May 12, 1885, admitted that the deal they forged with the rightful owners of Sabah did not forfeit the sovereign rights of the Sultan of Sulu and Brunei over the territories administered by the British Borneo Company.

In 1966, he sold the brand to the Parkhurst family who later forged a deal with David Ballachow to distribute the product in the United States.

The record forged the group's raw blues rock sound and earned them a new deal with Fat Possum Records.

The author of a rather singular, voluminous section, however, identifies himself as one Benedictus Levita (" Benedict the Levite ", or " the Deacon "), and his Capitularia Benedicti Levitae do not deal with early church and papal letters as the rest, but with forged Capitularies on religious and theological matters by various Carolingian rulers, most notably Charlemagne, who take on the role of providing the forger's false authority.

In early 1997, when Marvel's Heroes World endeavor failed, Diamond also forged an exclusive deal with the House of Ideas — giving the company its own section of comics catalog Previews ( not least because the DC / Dark Horse / Image deal gave contractual prominence to those companies ) — making " Geppi ... the sole king of comics industry distribution in the summer of 1996.

This deal forged Gibson's reputation and by the end of the war he had become a well-respected entrepreneur.

The GDB is run by priests, which sell lives to robots, and a deal forged between the archbishop and the chief of police is that anyone who does not have any lives is still resurrected, but in a holding cell.

Blok was relatively slow to acclimate to life in the Legion, though he eventually forged a close bond with two of his teammates, Timber Wolf and the White Witch, the latter with whom he spent a great deal of leisure time perusing the Legion's voluminous archives.

The documents in the Beit El land deal, involving the wives of the Beit El rosh yeshiva apparently buying the land from a dead man, were, according to one probe, based on forged documents.

It was adopted unanimously on 24 April 1870 and was influenced by the philosophical conceptions of Johann Baptist Franzelin, who had written a great deal on the topic of faith and rationality.

In April 2011, officials from Hamas and Fatah announced that both parties had reached an initial deal to unify into one government, with plans for elections to be held in 2012.

The International Refugee Organization ( IRO ) was founded on April 20, 1946 to deal with the massive refugee problem created by World War II.

In April 2012, Jeep signed a shirt sponsorship deal worth € 35m ($ 45m ) with Italian football club Juventus.

On April 1, 2009, SGI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced that it would sell substantially all of its assets to Rackable Systems, a deal finalized on May 11, 2009, with Rackable assuming the name " Silicon Graphics International ".

Their version attracted a good deal of attention, not least from David Bowie, as it was released in June 1979 just six weeks after Bowie's version had hit the UK Top 10 in April.

In late April, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees owner Dan Topping agreed to swap the players, but a day later canceled the deal when Yawkey requested that Yogi Berra come with DiMaggio.

The most notable of these took place in April 2008, when the CUF walked away from the negotiating table following a CCM call for a referendum to approve of what had been presented as a done deal on the power-sharing agreement.

They were in need of a new male star, and contacted Tracy on April 2, 1935, offering him a seven-year deal.

Prior to the arms deal, at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia in April 1955, Nasser was treated as the leading representative of the Arab countries and emerged as one of the key figures of the conference and the newly established Non-Aligned Movement.

On 8 April 2008, during his visit in Israel and Palestinian Authority, Bildt gave an interview to Swedish state radio, where he responded to a question on whether or not it would be possible to strike a peace deal without the involvement of the Palestinian group Hamas, which remained under international boycott.

In April 2000, in association with the central Banco Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe, the IMF approved a poverty reduction and growth facility for São Tomé aimed at reducing inflation to 3 % for 2001, raising deal growth to 4 %, and reducing the fiscal deficit.

Finally, on 6 April 1793, the Convention created the Committee of Public Safety ( later headed by Maximilien Robespierre ), and was given a monumental task: “ To deal with the radical movements of the Enragés, food shortages and riots, the revolt in the Vendée and in Brittany, recent defeats of its armies, and the desertion of its commanding general .” Most notably, the Committee of Public Safety instated a policy of terror, and the guillotine began to fall on perceived enemies of the republic at an ever-increasing rate, beginning the period known today as the Reign of Terror.

In April – July 1859 Napoleon made a secret deal with Cavour, Prime Minister of Piedmont, for France to assist in expelling Austria from the Italian peninsula and bringing about a united Italy, or at least a united northern Italy, in exchange for Piedmont ceding to France Savoy and the Nice region ( which was destined to become the so-called French Riviera ).

At a Cabinet meeting on 25 April Foch spoke against the deal Clemenceau had brokered and pushed for a separate Rhineland.

On April 28, 2010, Hewlett-Packard announced it would purchase Palm at $ 5. 70 a share for $ 1. 2 billion in an all-cash deal.

On April 30, 2008, the team signed a three year deal with WGN Radio ( 720 AM ), with games airing alternately instead on WIND ( 560 AM ) in scheduling conflict situations during the baseball season due to the Cubs having contractual preference to air on WGN.

On April 1, 2012, Miramax and Sky Italia, Italy ’ s leading pay TV platform, announced a deal under which that network will air many of the leading titles from Miramax ’ s collection across all of its pay television channels in Italy.

On April 13, 1990, Showtime signed an exclusive first-run deal with New Line Cinema.

Marian Jordan took a protracted absence from the show from November 1937 to April 1939 to deal with a lifelong battle with alcoholism, although this was attributed to " fatigue " in public statements at the time.

In April the following year the airline ordered 15 Embraer E-170LR aircraft in a deal worth $ 400 million.

Early in the morning of April 12, negotiations with Anderson had failed and aides of Beauregard, sent to deal personally with Anderson, ordered the first shots of the American Civil War to be fired from nearby Fort Johnson.

On April 28, 1932, Bow signed a two-picture deal with Fox Film Corporation ; Call Her Savage ( 1932 ) and Hoop-La ( 1933 ).

The deal did not go as fast as the group thought it should, so on April 18, 1910 Mr. J. B Shiver bought the lots and about a year later, the hotel was completed.

In April 2011 WHSmith agreed a deal with the legal services provider QualitySolicitors under which QualitySolicitors is to place representatives in up to 500 of its UK branches.