Word: farms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least the madness and the hot passions. It's a violent book, almost to the point of being gory. Among the "selections" from Garp's work included in the book is "The World According to Bensenhaver," in which a woman stabs to death the idiot farm boy who rapes her. One of the most horrifying (and at the same time, exhilirating) passages in recent memory involves Garp driving his children home from the movies. He has a habit of turning off the lights and coasting the family Volvo uphill and into his garage at night. Moving slowly, he rams...
...because it is closer to Malibu, home of his close companion, Singer Linda Ronstadt), Brown explained his attempt to blend liberal and conservative positions. "It's what I call mixing frugality with compassion. The people want fiscal responsibility and openness and experimental government. Anti-red lining, antismog regulations and farm labor laws?all these are compatible with a fairly hard fiscal policy. But just to fund everything in the public sector, I don't see that. The folks don't want...
FRANCE. Since 1977 some capital gains have been taxed, but France has a wide variety of exemptions - loopholes to critics - including capital gains from any source that do not exceed $4,600 a year and from the sale of a principal residence and of farm land...
...routine player-manager conflict. Then again, Lee is not a routine ballplayer. "It's a shame he's not out there pitching for us," Carlton Fisk said. Fisk first caught Lee when they both started for Boston's Bristol, Conn., farm club. "He was always a great competitor on the mound," Fisk said. "He was always intense during a game. And he was rebellious. Bill just wouldn't accept authority. He never liked people telling him how to live or what to think...
...innings over the rest of the season. Instead of using veteran Lee, who had a 12-5 lifetime record against the Yankees, during the two four-game duels with the New Yorkers, Zimmer went with John LaRose and Bobby Sprowl, who were brought up from Boston's Pawtucket, R.I. farm team just for the occasion. They were making their major league debuts, and they both were sent to the showers early...