Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time to chat. When he heads for work, Madison often stops for gas and gossip at the Chevron station in town. He makes his rounds in a four-wheel-drive pickup truck, his radio dial tuned to the country-and-western sound of station KRAI in nearby Craig, Colo. Duke, his big yellow dog of assorted heritage, accompanies him, riding in the back of the truck...
...aspen and spruce forests, snowcapped mountains and rolling ranchland-and this partly makes up for the lack of friendship in town. So does the great variety of his work. One day he may be up before dawn to survey an elk herd by helicopter. The next day he and Duke may hike ten miles into the high country to stock a remote lake with trout. When Madison checks fishing licenses on a lake, Duke sleeps in the canoe. "He's smart, but I can't teach him to paddle," jokes Madison...
JAMES DAVID BARBER, professor of political science, Duke University...
Galbraith's program is not a new idea, said Malcolm Gillien, professor of public policy and economics at Duke University, adding that for almost 15 years, there has been a growing consensus among economists that poor countries should stop stifling the agricultural market...
...Oxford, Ohio, near the sharecropper's farm where he was born. Alston, who struck out in his only major league turn at bat in 1936, won more than 2,000 regular-season games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself last year. He had always signed one-year contracts for the job he considered "the best in baseball." Noted Tommy Lasorda, Alston's successor as manager: "If you couldn't play for Walt, you couldn...