The government calculated that the family of the young man, a recent college graduate in his 20's who made almost $60,000 a year, deserved $1.19 million in gross compensation for his unfulfilled economic potential and for the family's pain and suffering.
If any year deserved such an influence, it was this one, with so much relative strangeness passing in human life that sometimes it seems difficult to remember how to even read.
"The final major of the year deserves a haiku," insists Simon McMahon, and to be honest with you I don't have the energy to argue with him.
Having persuaded him to stay, Burberry then handed Bailey a £7.5m golden hello a few months later when promoting him to chief executive; £22.5m in a single year deserved a full explanation.
AN arts organization that has been active for a hundred years deserves a party, and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club is throwing itself one in the form of a 100-work exhibition.
So, moments like Paul Goldschmidt's game-ending home run to vault the Diamondbacks over the Orioles, which, startlingly, was his fourth game-ending hit of the year, deserved a little excessive celebration from his teammates.
Markai and the million-plus babies who fall into the "unwanted" category every year deserve to be given a choice that doesn't involve murder.
The Olympic Club of 2012 is something of a gem, recognisable as the same layout that produced that largely undistinguished list of past winners – Casper, a very fine and successful player over the years, deserves an exemption from all scepticism – but also a course that is transformed.
Derek Jeter, in his finest year, deserved to be the A.L.'s M.V.P., and Bernie Williams and Cone were at their peaks.
