Word: almost
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...being a dirty player. Nor has anyone shown that his indiscretions affected his performance as an All-Star: in reality, after his affair was brought to light last year, Boggs hit a remarkable .380 (as opposed to .310 before). Even the trespasses that Boggs did commit seem almost trifling at a time when five football players at the University of Oklahoma alone are variously charged with gang rape, dealing in cocaine and assault with a deadly weapon...
Serious crime almost never happens here; crack and heroin come to town only on TV news shows. Boasts the mayor, Thelma Bisenius: "This is a place where you don't have to lock your door and you can let your children come into downtown alone." Clay Center citizens care about one another, and about outsiders too. The 55-member Rotary Club has raised $30,000 in three years to help administer polio vaccinations around the world. In short, this should be an idyllic place to live. Yet something is wrong here. Clay Center (pop. 4,700) has lost hundreds...
...from Clay Center's town square are still in use, the county's economy is no longer primarily agricultural. Clay County benefited during the 1950s and '60s from the arrival of manufacturing companies that produced such goods as metalworking equipment and grain-handling machinery. But in the past decade almost 300 jobs have disappeared. Says Mayor Bisenius: "In the past few years we have realized that we cannot exist as a town without something new coming...
...January, during three days of meetings that rang with a fervor akin to that of an old-time tent revival, almost 200 residents anted up more than $250,000 to buy a small equity stake in a new Kansas City-based company that plans to produce light aircraft. Townspeople hope their investment will help persuade the company to put its assembly plant in Clay Center, where it would provide 300 jobs. Says Deanna Fuller, a former farmwife who heads the local economic development group: "These people just want to make it possible for the young folks to come back...
...British disclosure of the hitherto unpublicized memo prompted a belated admission by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that almost identical alerts had been circulated to American airlines for more than a month before the December warning. On Nov. 18 an "aviation security bulletin" urged airlines to be on the lookout for explosive-packed cassette recorders, painstakingly describing the "Toshiba bomb." On Nov. 22 the British issued a similar alert, but only to British airlines and airports...