Word: dakota
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Yardlings from as far away as India, Mexico and South Dakota gathered at Memorial Hall and trooped down Cambridge St. to explore the farthest reaches of "the real city...
...member of the Communist Party Secretariat, a group of about ten officials who run the vast Soviet bureaucracy on a day-to-day basis. Gorbachev was given responsibility for all of Soviet agriculture. A rough American parallel would be the appointment of a little-known Governor of, say, South Dakota to be officially Secretary of Agriculture and unofficially a member of the President's inner circle of top advisers...
...stay put on Capitol Hill. The G.O.P. is concerned that defeats in the 1986 elections could erase the party's current 53-47 Senate majority. While the Republicans must defend 22 seats on the ballot next year, the Democrats have only twelve seats at risk. In Florida, South Dakota, Idaho and Washington, Democrats hope to win seats now held by the G.O.P. They feel that the large blocs of registered Democrats in New York and Pennsylvania will help them unseat Republican incumbents in those states. In addition, the G.O.P. may lose Senate races in North Carolina, where John East...
...letters to Walker were still stored, as well as a 48-page manual of Navy contingency plans for major hostilities in the Middle East. Brenda protested that they also carried away all her computerized notes for her doctoral dissertation on nutrition. Born and reared on a farm in North Dakota, she had met Whitworth on a 1971 trip to San Diego. She had found him "dynamic and very interesting to talk to," she told the San Francisco Examiner. They corresponded for three years and were married in 1976. Said she last week: "I stand by my husband. I believe...
...Capitol Hill, Democrats were gingerly trying to determine how to make the plan more palatable to themselves and their constituents. "Reagan is giving populism a bad name," said Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. "If I were making $400,000 a year, I'd be the biggest cheerleader for this in America." Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, co-sponsor of a Democratic tax-reform plan, said there was talk of adding either a fourth, higher rate, perhaps 40%, for the very rich, or providing a further break for the middle class. Said Gephardt: "We need to put our stamp on tax reform...