Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, hand in hand with Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, dancing the hora while hundreds of young men and women clapped their hands and thousands of onlookers chanted "Hua! Hua!" And the scene of all this commotion was right in the Kremlin's backyard...
...Kennedy getting 48% and Carter 15%. Brown has particular problems getting the votes of blacks and women. Brown would be acceptable as President to only 36% of those surveyed and unacceptable to 34% (29% say they have no opinion about Brown). Interestingly, he is least liked in his own backyard: he would be unacceptable to 49% of those in the West...
Heitz started with almost nothing, and he certainly is no Henry Ford II, but he can say, with Ford's proud independence, "My name is on the building." Right in his backyard, in two gray stone structures that are 100 paces from his white frame house, Heitz, Wife Alice, Son David and four hired hands make a product that is sold in half the nation's states. He is chief executive of Heitz Wine Cellars, which means that he is also vintner, bacteriologist, accountant, marketing manager and occasional lawn mower...
...lists to consider, a sea of memorandums from the Cabinet departments, political invitations for presidential visits. Gone is the time for backpacking trips or even the occasional poker game that he once enjoyed. He counts himself lucky to spend a little time on Sundays at the pool in the backyard of the Georgetown house he shares with Jordan and Presidential Pollster Pat Caddell (Kraft's marriage broke up recently after just ten months...
...numbers to an estimated half a million today. But the state's human population also has been expanding rapidly, and contractors have been filling in swamps and marshes for real estate developments. The result: the once endangered species became an endangering one, venturing onto golf courses and into backyard swimming pools. Last year there were twelve unprovoked attacks by gators on humans. One victim, a man who had been cleaning weeds from his dock, died...