Word: coves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reaganauts breathed a little easier. Pierce, who is best known for his work in labor law, is the Cabinet's only black so far. An Eastern Establishment Republican, the son of a prosperous dry cleaner and real estate man in the New York suburb of Glen Cove, Pierce was a star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa graduate at Cornell, where he also earned his law degree in 1949. He then began building a long string of firsts, such as the highest-ranking black (as an assistant to an Under Secretary of Labor) in the Eisenhower Administration and the first...
...York's South Bronx that provides the electricity to turn vegetable waste into compost, to $7,450 for an artificial lagoon in Hercules, Calif., to purify water and make methane gas. This year Robert Witkoff, 40, an industrial designer and builder of electric cars in Glen Cove, N.Y., is asking for $50,000 to help develop an integrated windmill system that would use gently blowing breezes both to drive household appliances and to recharge the batteries of an electric...
...drunk too much at a garden party and is trying to appear sober. I totter along for miles, fascinated, accompanied by a dog who skates no better than I do and an assistant dog who loses control of her hindquarters when she tries to turn. We reach a cove where three boys skate in a big, shifting triangle, rattling a hockey puck across the ice from vertex to vertex...