Word: alabama
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...think today demonstrated that we're still not good enough to forget about the Ivies," Army Coach Jim Young said. "I think they give us just as good a game as a Syracuse, Washington or Alabama. Of course, [the Ivy teams] are going to be the underdogs. But that doesn't mean they're going to lose the game...
...argued an appeal. Most damaging, Lucas displayed a woeful ignorance of basic civil rights issues. Asked about the distinction between de facto (actual) and de jure (legal) segregation, Lucas drew a blank. "If it had been a white man who had been nominated who had the same background," said Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin, "he wouldn't have gotten anywhere. I think the fact that Mr. Lucas was black caused more consideration to be given...
Many Republicans not only agree with Aspin but are leading the assault on the Stealth. Says the committee's ranking Republican member, William Dickinson of Alabama: "The B-2 program is in a lot of trouble, not for technical reasons but simply by price tag." Declares Ohio Congressman John Kasich: "Nobody's pushed harder for the ((Secretary of Defense Dick)) Cheney / defense budget than I, but America cannot afford the B-2." To South Carolina Republican Arthur Ravenel Jr., cancellation of the B-2 is inevitable, "just like death and taxes...
Describing how white firefighters in Birmingham, Alabama had challenged an old consent decree of which they had not been a part, Rom concluded that the Court's ruling meant that now "anything is fair game...
...becomes the currency with which you pay. It makes sense though. It is energy, after all, that you are looking for: buried." He recalls the mineral's origin, millions of years ago, in ancient seashores, and feels that there is a "frozen sea in me." Describing the geology of Alabama and Mississippi, he writes, "The old sea retreated two hundred and fifty million years ago . . . the sands, five and six thousand feet down, like plunging porpoises, sounding, headed back to the deep...