Word: baileys
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Senior Brooke Bailey, sophomore Heather Sullivan, junior Kathy Shergalis and freshman Rosie Stovel all played solid matches...
...died, far from a superstar, in 1973. The new CDs prove that his pop singing, had it not been eclipsed by the advent of the Beatles and the passing of Tin Pan Alley, could have become world-class. Tunes like Clementine and Skylark, even a chestnut like Bill Bailey, can still make your speakers jump. Darin was born a little out of time, but time has been good to his music...
Inching her Chevy van across water-covered roads and mud flats last week, Mayor Jo Mapel of Bailey's Prairie, Texas, couldn't begin to guess how huge the damage bill would be. Most of the ranching hamlet (pop. 634) near the Gulf Coast lay submerged under the dark red waters of the Brazos River and adjoining creeks. Said Mapel: "Nobody's escaping without big problems. This mess is going to be with us for months...
More and more experts now think that additional construction should be discouraged. The Federal Emergency Management Agency imposes building and development codes as a prerequisite for communities to qualify for subsidized flood insurance. In Bailey's Prairie many newer homes were spared serious damage because they were built on higher ground. The trouble is, says Arthur Storey, executive director of the Harris County Flood Control District, "regulations look at worst-case scenarios, but those are always exceeded by nature's storms." And hundreds of thousands of other structures erected before the mid-1970s are not covered by the rules...
...according to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, who described the incident in November testimony before Congress, after several fruitless days Bailey came up empty-handed. Then, Cheney testified, Bailey had second thoughts. Perhaps, he suggested, the picture had been taken in Burma. Bailey now claims he was set up by Cheney. The Pentagon, he insists, drove a wedge between him and his mysterious source by getting to the man first and convincing him that Bailey was attempting to cheat him out of a sizable reward for his information...