Word: considerable
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The drought has reduced parts of the mighty Mississippi to a slow, shallow stream, stalling barge traffic amid rocks and sandbars. But as the water recedes, the river bottom emerges, providing clues to a lost past. On an ugly beach of sand and clay in Arkansas, just downstream from Memphis...
His parents, Phillips Andover Academy and the war -- the three being much the same thing for him -- made George Bush what he is. His family was made up of fiercely competitive athletes. Golfing's Walker Cup is named -- like George Herbert Walker Bush himself -- for the polo-playing grandfather who...
The Reverend Jesse Jackson was cheered wildly by Democratic party activists when he called for continuing the fight for ERA, but most Americans don't seem to share that enthusiasm. Voters in Maine and liberal Vermont, the latest to consider referendums on the proposal, handed feminists two more defeats. Schlafly...
When the Judicial Conference of the U.S. recommended last year that the House consider impeachment, the Congressional Black Caucus maneuvered to have the matter placed in the hands of a judiciary subcommittee headed by black Congressman John Conyers. Conyers began as an avowed Hastings sympathizer. But as the hearings unfolded...
Ecophobia, as the mood might be called, has not been induced by the hot spell alone, even though many places have scored the heat the worst in history. Chicago reported an unprecedented number of 100 degrees days, and temperature records have been broken in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Indiana...