Word: dakota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impractical. All in all, not the kind of vehicle that would lend itself to a gun rack behind the driver's seat or a load of cargo bouncing around in the back. Think again: Chrysler, the No. 3 U.S. automaker, plans to introduce in early 1989 a Dodge Dakota pickup truck with a removable, manually operated vinyl...
Love Medicine (1984) and The Beet Queen (1986) introduced Louise Erdrich as a writer with a bold talent and exotic demographics. Both novels drew deeply from her background in North Dakota, where her German-born father and Chippewa mother worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Erdrich's use of history, legend and experience was sophisticated. She is a 1976 graduate of Dartmouth, where her husband Michael Dorris, who is part Modoc, is a professor in the college's department of Native American studies. She has a master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins, a pocketful of literary...
...completed: "I need to free myself of the Lennon name." Her tender contributions to that album were inspired not by John, as everyone was led to believe, but by a man named Sam Green, her lover of the moment. And Lennon's tales of cozy domesticity in the Dakota, his Manhattan apartment house, did not stand up to Goldman's six years of research and interviews; servants handled the baking and child minding while John either nodded off or padded about the place naked and drugged to his eyeballs...
...sooner than economists had predicted, primarily because some food-processing companies raised their prices before they started paying more for their raw materials. But many producers have not yet hiked their prices; when they do, further retail increases are likely. The devastation of the durum-wheat crop in North Dakota, for example, is bound to result in heavy markups on pasta. The Agriculture Department maintains that the inflation rate for food this year will stay within its predicted range of 3% to 5%, but that forecast is looking increasingly wishful...
...guerrilla campaign deep in Republican territory. He popped up in Alabama, Florida and Texas, contrasting what he later called his attachment to Main Street with Republican roistering on Bourbon Street. The incursion was central to his strategy. For weeks Dukakis has been traveling to states as small as North Dakota and as large as California that have gone Republican in recent presidential elections. He even told Floridians, in defiance of all conventional wisdom, "I believe we're going to win here...