Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council should handle matterspragmatically, he says, tackling some issues withan aggressive approach and others by writingreports. Some of the council's most importantaccomplishments, Winthrop says, have been "thingsthat are not earth-shattering, but they make adifference," such as extending library hours. Overthe years the council has learned "to do thingsthoroughly and not just shoot from the hip," hesays...
...live in the greatest country on earth. If the people believe in our country and our fellow citizens, we can accomplish almost any worthy goal....I'm an unabashed patriot, and I'm proud of it," he writes...
...Senators are among the most cosseted people on earth. They are fussed over by constituents, lobbyists and journalists, fawned over by handlers and flunkies. The Senate is a closed and comfortable world, a place even Senators proudly call the most exclusive club in Washington. Small wonder that the very idea of allowing television cameras into their august chamber sparked the kind of weighty deliberation and heated debate normally associated with issues like the Panama Canal treaties...
...seems that there is no place on earth too remote to have a McDonald's restaurant, a Coca-Cola bottling plant or a Holiday Inn hotel. The Memphis- based Holiday Corp. lodging chain said last week that it had agreed to manage Tibet's ten-month-old Lhasa Hotel, a 500-room, $30 million complex...
...tunnel just beneath the reactor. The crippled unit will then be encased within a concrete barrier that will descend 96 ft. into the ground. Engineers were also spreading a plastic film over some 300,000 sq. yds. of soil a day to prevent further contamination and hold tainted earth in place...