Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lean, plain-spoken husband and their eight-month-old daughter Lindy Lou for a new life. Their companions were some 35 other city folk, most of them from the Detroit area, who set out in a caravan of cars, pickup trucks and house trailers to take up land in Alaska...
...Fifty-Niners pressed on to the Kenai Peninsula, their original destination, only to discover that good unclaimed land there was hard to come by. Then they heard about the west bank of the Susitna: rich, available farmland, with a marvelous view-on clear days-of Mount McKinley and the Alaska Range. There was a hitch: there were no roads into the area and no bridges. In winter you could walk across the frozen river; in summer you could take a boat. But during the spring breakup and the autumn freeze-up the only way you could cross the Susitna...
...allowed. "They got a horse in a well and got it out alive." Later that winter Bertha Donaldson fell ill and had to be evacuated by Bush Pilot Sheldon. Soon she. was back, not knowing that her illness, Hodgkin's disease, would some day cause her to leave Alaska and would eventually take her life. In the early spring she wrote in her journal, "I've never seen such a March in my life. The only thing I heard yesterday was a robin. Sometimes I sit on a stump and listen to the silence...
StateCandidates Raw Vote % of Vote % of Precincts Alabama (D) 706,298 63 85 Albert Lee Smith (R) 409,981 36 Alaska John Havelock (D) 253 496 58 56 Ted Stevens (R) 185 913 42 Arkansas E--David Pryor (D) 253,195 58 56 Ed Bethune 185,913 42 Colorado Nancy Dick (D) 195 396 37 47 E-Pill Armatrong (R) 333 917 62 Delaware E-Joseph Biden (D) 147 056 60 100 John Burns (R) 97 903 40 Georgia F-Sam Nunn (D) 871 023 82 75 Mike Hicks (R) 189 668 18 Idaho Pete Busch...
Finally, last week a compromise was reached after endless negotiations that left the office of Alaska's Ted Stevens, Senate floor manager for the funding bill, strewn with litter. The end was in sight. The Democratic House completed its chores, and most of its members scurried out of Washington. The Republican Senate convened for the final formalities, including an affectionate farewell tribute to retiring Majority Leader Howard Baker. All that remained was to raise the national debt ceiling by $251 billion, to $1.824 trillion, since the old limit would otherwise be surpassed. But then Democratic Senators balked. Long berated...