Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Signs everywhere tell you to watch out for the scorpions. Someone in the back of the tour group always reminds you, "They can't kill you, you know. They only make you violently ill for three days." Great, put five or six on my arm, please! I've seen Bonanza and Big Valley, I know what scorpions...
...energy bonanza, morever, won't last forever either. For instance, income from mineral production dropped $7 million in 1983 to $26 million for the 4800 Arapahoe and Shoshone Indians in Wyoming...
...will Jackson's publicity bonanza produce enough votes to shake up the Democratic race seriously? Many political experts had doubts. "Jesse can get every political prisoner released in the world, and he can't be nominated," contended Joe Reed, chairman of the all-black Alabama Democratic Conference, which has endorsed Mondale for President and Jackson for Vice President. Jackson, naturally, took a more upbeat view. "God will provide," he said. "Who could have ever imagined that there would be a black pilot from Portsmouth, N.H., being held in a jail in Damascus?" His plans to hold a political...
...result is an international wine glut, as much a hangover for growers, shippers and retailers as it is a bonanza for consumers. In California, thousands of tons of wine grapes were left unpicked last year. E. & J. Gallo, by far the country's largest winemaker, reportedly turned down huge quantities of grapes offered at large discounts; its vast storage tanks in California's Central Valley were filled to overflowing. Even before the 1983 crop was harvested, there was an estimated 200 million-gallon surplus of California wine, which has now dwindled considerably...
...ends. The gravediggers on Hart Island repair to a black-and-white television set to watch a rerun of Bonanza. Outside, in a corner of the field, last light leaves a stone on which somebody etched, "Cry not for us for we are with the Father. No longer do we cast shadows on the ground as you do. We are at peace...