Among the roughly 1,200 listeners present, some sat or sprawled on the hardwood floor, eyes closed in deep contemplation.
"Alfred Taubman is an innocent man," one of his lawyers, Robert B. Fiske Jr., of Davis, Polk & Wardwell told the largely working class jury of eight men and four women, as Mr. Taubman, 76, a developer of shopping malls with a fortune estimated at roughly $700 million, sat impassively at the defense table.
Honey Grove (population roughly 1,700) sits in Fannin County about 20 miles west of downtown Paris, and bills itself as "The Sweetest Town in Texas".
The much-maligned Maple Leafs spend more than just about anyone, especially once you include factors such as buyouts, front office firings, and dead money – they even agreed to pay Nathan Horton roughly $25m to sit at home just so they could dump free agent disaster David Clarkson's cap hit.
Roughly 40% sit in the growth camp, meaning that they want to find the next Cisco or Microsoft.
A decade earlier, the PISA tests had found that Poland's students sat roughly equal to their counterparts in Hungary and Slovakia in terms of math achievement.
On a mildly warm, overcast pre-autumn Saturday, roughly 75,000 people sat in the sand and stared at a Jumbotron on North Avenue Beach to watch average Joes glide off of a 30-foot high pier and plunge into Lake Michigan like sacrificial lambs appeasing the Third Coast Gods.
Kiev has accused Moscow of harassing ships heading towards Mariupol, a key industrial port city with a population of around 500,000 that sits roughly 500 miles southeast of the capital.
Just a few tables away sat men roughly the same age, wearing guayaberas, speaking rapid Spanish.
In 2005, he sat out roughly three months because of shoulder problems and underwent arthroscopic surgery in which his labrum — a thin piece of tissue that goes around the rim of the socket, which had partially detached — was reattached.
