Word: crop
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...independence that accounts for both her successes and failures. It has helped restore public confidence in the justice system and attracted a new crop of young lawyers to public service. Her department's prosecutors have won convictions of high-profile criminals ranging from airline-bomb-plot mastermind Ramzi Yousef to Mexican drug tycoon Juan Garcia Abrego. And she has revitalized Justice's antitrust, civil rights and environment divisions. But she has also failed to harness her popularity to win important legislative battles, such as expanding the FBI's wiretap authority. Her darkest day remains the deadly assault on the Branch...
...years of modestly sufficient rain and no crop-battering hail, prosperity seemed possible. But the winter of 1916-17 was arctic, and the next summer saw only 5 in. of rain. Crops and credit dried up, farmsteads failed. Even today a curious visitor has no trouble finding the husks of homesteaders' abandoned houses, some with clothes still in closets and perhaps a hopeless account book yellowing on a kitchen floor...
...expect such a Harvard presence in Clinton's second term. In fact, the cream of the crop have already served their time in the Cabinet and are now returning to private life...
...show proceeds, parallels between the concert and the political campaign crop up left and right. For starters, the show lacks a certain electricity, and it's hard to know whether the apathetic crowd or the band itself is to blame. The Pumpkins stick to a set-list full of their radio-friendly hits--the musical equivalent of sound bites. And as if they are trying to pound a message into their fans, they play exactly the same songs as they did at a New England stop earlier in the tour...
Here's another way to take a holiday vacation on the cheap: Christmas albums. This year's crop of holiday-themed CDs includes musical excursions to Africa, Ireland and Latin America; they won't earn you frequent-flyer miles, but you won't have to deal with that knee-crushing idiot who keeps his seat back for the entire six-hour flight to Buenos Aires. World Christmas (Metro Blue) features artists from a number of time zones, including Cape Verdean vocalist Cesaria Evora. There's also a Celtic Christmas II (Windham Hill); A Brasilian Christmas (Astor Place); and Festival...