Word: chops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farmers Home Administration. Since this agency spends some $14.5 billion a year among the nation's farmers and in small rural communities, it has strong backing from many of the nation's Congressmen. Reagan is proposing to chop only some $100 million out of FHA's 1982 outlays, but by reducing commitments for grants and loans to build water and sewage systems in small towns, future savings would grow substantially. The agency's most personal service has been to lend farmers who cannot get conventional loans the money they need to plant their crops, buy land...
...devil with three heads and six arms who can do anything she wants." Then, just before the courtroom drama concluded with her forcible eviction, she once again declared her willingness to die for her cause. "I only wish," she said, "that I had several heads for you to chop...
...eighth, the Phillies knotted the contest at 3-3 as Bowa beat out an infield chop, Smith drew a walk, and Pete Rose connected for the first time this series, pounding a single to drive Bowa...
...other two came on Murray's solo blast that opened the sixth inning and a ground single off Alevizos by Pat Barry which plated Ron Valeri in the ninth. Otherwise, Northeastern's bats seemed content to sedately chop grounders to Harvard thirdsacker Rick Pearce, who handled eight chances with his usual flawless precision...
Perhaps it was subliminal suggestion rather than accident that made gold so dominant a color in a 4-ft.-by-8-ft. canvas dedicated last week at F.X. McRory's Steak, Chop and Oyster House in Seattle. Accepting a $100,000 commission from the restaurant's owners, Pop Artist LeRoy Neiman had begun the painting a year ago, but then somehow found himself running low on inspiration. McRory's spurred him on by sweetening the terms with 64 oz. of gold at a time when the precious metal was selling for $396 per oz. Suitably reinspired, Neiman...