Word: beate
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...Promoter Gatewood Galbraith has organized a grassroots campaign to put Kentucky in a position to corner the market if and when pot is legalized. Says he: "Kentucky's already got parimutuel betting. It's got whisky and it's got tobacco. You just can't beat the combination of marijuana and money." Under his plan, the state would license growers and retail dealers. He calculates that the scheme would cut in half the street price of pot (now about $25 per oz. in Louisville) and earn Kentucky about $150 million a year in fees-a heady...
While these technologies beat praying for rain, they may not be enough to save the crops if the drought continues another year. Says Chuck Shoemaker of the California water department: "It's a little like rolling dice or cutting cards. The odds were very long against having two years in a row like this. They're just the same against three years...
...your article "Twenty-Eight, and Counting ..." [July 18], you state that "the blend of sex and male-to-male rivalry can be explosive." What about the explosive violence of the thousands of married men who beat their wives and what about the 1 million children a year who are physically abused by their parents? Homosexuals have no patent on violence...
...more than one million celebrators swarmed through the steamy streets to Peking's T'ien An Men Square, where only 15 months ago demonstrators had inveighed against Teng's counterrevolutionary treachery. Rejoicing at Teng's comeback, they waved thousands of flags, pounded cymbals, beat drums, blew on trumpets and set off rockets and fireworks. In Shanghai, a city that last April had featured posters saying HANG THE CULPRIT TENG, 500,000 people turned out to celebrate his escape from the gallows. At the same time, Peking television showed film clips of China's new ruling...
...Israeli Premier may not press his luck in matching scriptural references with Carter. Last month, at a meeting with Chief Rabbi (Ashkenazi) Shlomo Goren, the President listened as the rabbi cited a biblical passage but then fumbled for the exact English translation. Without missing a beat, Carter finished the verse...