Question: CHAPTER XXX

FERN Mullins rushed into the house on a Saturday morning early in September and shrieked at Carol, "School starts next Tuesday. I've got to have one more spree before I'm arrested. Let's get up a picnic down the lake for this afternoon. Won't you come, Mrs. Kennicott, and the doctor? Cy Bogart wants to go--he's a brat but he's lively."

"I don't think the doctor can go," sedately. "He said something about having to make a country call this afternoon. But I'd love to."

"That's dandy! Who can we get?"

"Mrs. Dyer might be chaperon. She's been so nice. And maybe Dave, if he could get away from the store."

"How about Erik Valborg? I think he's got lots more style than these town boys. You like him all right, don't you?"

So the picnic of Carol, Fern, Erik, Cy Bogart, and the Dyers was not only moral but inevitable.

They drove to the birch grove on the south shore of Lake Minniemashie. Dave Dyer was his most clownish self. He yelped, jigged, wore Carol's hat, dropped an ant down Fern's back, and when they went swimming (the women modestly changing in the car with the side curtains up, the men undressing behind the bushes, constantly repeating, "Gee, hope we don't run into poison ivy"), Dave splashed water on them and dived to clutch his wife's ankle. He infected the others. Erik gave an imitation of the Greek dancers he had seen in vaudeville, and when they sat down to picnic supper spread on a lap-robe on the grass, Cy climbed a tree to throw acorns at them. 1. Which lake did they go to?
2. Who rushed into the house?
3. Why did he want to go on a final spree?
4. Who ended up going a long and acted like a clown?
5. Did he wear something that belonged to someone else?
6. And who did he throw an insect on?
7. What plant did they wish to not run in to ?
8. Did anyone throw an acorn? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Lake Minniemashie
2. FERN Mullins
3. To get in a spree before school starts and they're arrested
4. Dave Dyer
5. Carol's hat
6. Fern's
7. poison ivy
8. Yes, Cy

Q: In 1682, William Penn founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia played an instrumental role in the American Revolution as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787. Philadelphia was one of the nation's capitals in the Revolutionary War, and served as temporary U.S. capital while Washington, D.C., was under construction. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became a major industrial center and railroad hub that grew from an influx of European immigrants. It became a prime destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration and surpassed two million occupants by 1950.

Based on the similar shifts underway the nation's economy after 1960, Philadelphia experienced a loss of manufacturing companies and jobs to lower taxed regions of the USA and often overseas. As a result, the economic base of Philadelphia, which had historically been manufacturing, declined significantly. In addition, consolidation in several American industries (retailing, financial services and health care in particular) reduced the number of companies headquartered in Philadelphia. The economic impact of these changes would reduce Philadelphia's tax base and the resources of local government. Philadelphia struggled through a long period of adjustment to these economic changes, coupled with significant demographic change as wealthier residents moved into the nearby suburbs and more immigrants moved into the city. The city in fact approached bankruptcy in the late 1980s. Revitalization began in the 1990s, with gentrification turning around many neighborhoods and reversing its decades-long trend of population loss.

1. Philadelphia
2. William Penn
3. 1682
4. serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony.
5. 1776
6. 1787
7. unknown
8. Washington, D.C
9. 1980s
10. 1990s
11. gentrification

Numbered questions:
1. what is this article about?
2. who founded the city?
3. when?
4. why?
5. when was the declaration of independence signed
6. when was the constitiution signed?
7. who signed the?
8. what city was under construction when Philadelphia was capital temporarily?
9. when did the city approach bankruptcy?
10. when did revitalization start?
11. what changed the neighborhoods?

input: (CNN) -- A Florida jury awarded a widow $23.6 billion in punitive damages in her lawsuit against tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, her lawyer said.

Cynthia Robinson claimed that smoking killed her husband, Michael Johnson, in 1996. She argued R.J. Reynolds was negligent in not informing him that nicotine is addictive and smoking can cause lung cancer. Johnson started smoking when he was 13 and died of lung cancer when he was 36.

The jury award Friday evening is "courageous," said Robinson's lawyer, Christopher Chestnut.

"If anyone saw the documents that this jury saw, I believe that person would have awarded a similar or greater verdict amount," he said.

The Escambia County trial took four weeks and the jury deliberated for 15 hours, according to the Pensacola News Journal. The verdict included more than $16 million in compensatory damages, the newspaper said.

Nine ex-smokers on their last cigarette

Chestnut said five of the six jurors who heard the case were 45 or younger, which meant he had to show them how the tobacco industry presented its product before the public awareness campaigns on tobacco risks and dangers in the 1990s.

In a statement, J. Jeffery Raborn, vice president and assistant general counsel for R. J. Reynolds, said, "The damages awarded in this case are grossly excessive and impermissible under state and constitutional law.

"This verdict goes far beyond the realm of reasonableness and fairness and is completely inconsistent with the evidence presented," said Raborn. "We plan to file post-trial motions with the trial court promptly and are confident that the court will follow the law and not allow this runaway verdict to stand." 1. Who was given the money?
2. How much was that?
3. for what?
4. Who was the defendant?
5. In which state?
6. Who was the plaintiff?
7. Who was killed?
8. Why?
9. When?
10. How did he got the ailment?
11. Did they point finger to anyone?
12. Who was that?
13. Did they tell him beforehand about the danger?
14. Who actully gave the verdict?
15. When?
16. Who broke the news?
17. How long the process took?
18. Was the company happy about it?
19. Who expressed that opinion?
20. Who is he?
21. Do they want to counter it?
22. Are they confident abotut it?
23. Where they will protest about it? Return numbered answers in your output.

output:
1. a widow
2. $23.6 billion
3. claimed that smoking killed her husband
4. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
5. Florida
6. Cynthia Robinson
7. killed her husband, Michael Johnson
8. died of lung cancer when he was 36
9. in 1996
10. started smoking when he was 13
11. R.J. Reynolds was negligent in not informing him that nicotine is addictive and smoking can cause lung cancer
12. R.J. Reynolds
13. R.J. Reynolds was negligent in not informing him that nicotine is addictive and smoking can cause lung cancer.
14. the jury deliberated for 15 hours, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
15. Friday evening
16. according to the Pensacola News Journa
17. trial took four weeks and the jury deliberated for 15 hours,
18. J. Jeffery Raborn, vice president and assistant general counsel for R. J. Reynolds, said, "The damages awarded in this case are grossly excessive and impermissible under state and constitutional law.
19. J. Jeffery Raborn
20. vice president and assistant general counsel for R. J. Reynolds, said,
21. "We plan to file post-trial motions with the trial court promptly
22. are confident that the court will follow the law and not allow this runaway verdict to stand."
23. the trial court