Word: daniels
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Like the South in general, Kentucky has found that its climate, location, natural beauty, and amorphous "charm" can work to its financial advantage. The best outdoor tourist areas--the western lakes, Daniel Boone National Forest in the foothills of the Appalachians, and the rolling hill and forest land in between--are perfectly complemented by the only two urban centers, Louisville and Lexington...
...YEARS BACK, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell called attention to what he termed a major contradiction in modern life--one that he felt could eventually not away at the very foundation of western society. He described in various books and articles a type of personality that has become increasingly familiar: men and women who, as he puts it, are managers by day and swingers by night. Since then, contemporary observers have been intrigued, if not worried, by this corruption of the Protestant work ethic whereby hard driven men and women leave their offices at night for the self indulgent lifestyle...
Without question, the contra campaign is having a severe effect on the Sandinistas' ability to run the country. The fighting now drains off over half the regime's budget. Says Daniel Nunez, a Sandinista deputy in the National Assembly: "The war is a curse." Billboards throughout the country implore EVERYTHING FOR THE COMBATANTS, EVERYTHING FOR THE WAR FRONT. Draftees as young as twelve are willing to die for the cause, but increasing numbers of middle-class parents are sending their sons out of the country. Many Nicaraguans have grown increasingly disenchanted with the Sandinistas over the past few months. Consumer...
...town surrounded by pastures, where cattle graze alongside active oil pumps. An only child, Pickens was raised on a street of white clapboard houses and green lawns. The family is fond of tracing its ancestry back to the same part of England that produced a distant kinsman, Daniel Boone...
...arbs, however, can lose fortunes in an instant if a merger agreement falls apart. These dramatic wins and wipeouts have earned arbs a reputation as Wall Street's most daring investors. Says Daniel Tisch, an arb for Wall Street's Salomon Brothers: "You can't be 100% sane to sit here and, based on 20 words on the Dow Jones wire, risk $10 million to $15 million...