Word: face
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coop came out the decided winner, and a quick check reveals that little has since changed. Local booksellers might be a better option, but they say they face constraints similar to the Coop's, and that they have no incentive to take on the Coop's role...
...near Hooker, about midway between Guymon and Liberal, where four generations of Howells have grown wheat and raised families. Now feisty Julia Howell, 69, talks about her "40,000 neighbors" and explains why she seals the farmhouse windows, stuffs pillows into the chimney and seldom ventures outdoors without a face mask...
...loans and tax breaks in the form of economic incentives. If you're the mayor and the facility means jobs and income for your town, do you play hardball and risk losing the plant and the jobs? Or do you give in and hand out tax money, only to face a never-ending string of similar demands from others...
...season, and folks were out with their kids for what has become a ritual among many baby-boom parents. I was particularly interested because assistant managing editor Dan Goodgame, who grew up hunting nearby in southern Mississippi, had suggested we do a story on an issue many parents now face: Is hunting a good thing to teach our kids? "People who hunt get something valuable out of it that doesn't translate well to people who don't hunt," says Goodgame. "So it makes an interesting social issue...
...critics warned that such a system would turn Switzerland into a clearinghouse for foreign drug dealers and cut it off from the international police community. That prospect was distinctly unappealing to the Swiss, who last year voted to provide heroin to hard-core users and currently face one of Europe's highest rates of drug addiction -- about 30,000 in a nation of 7 million...