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...During his tenure as vice president, Mondale has won from the Administration strong stands on affirmative action and increased funding for a variety of educational and urban programs. Mondale played an important role in gaining the cooperation of organized labor in endorsing anti-inflationary policies. And in a symbolic flourish, he is the first vice president with an office in the West Wing of the White House...
...flood? The wilting cotton in fields to the east-some of it, at least-would revive and make it to market after all. The sparse grama and buffalo grass that sheep and cattle had been browsing, almost a blade at a time, would, by West Texas standards, flourish. No wonder that Tom Randall, San Angelo's Cadillac dealer, tripled his sales in the days after the rain...
...those injuries to upperclassmen "gave the sophomores a chance to show their stuff," senior linebacker Bob Woolway said yesterday, and some did so with a flourish. Scott McCabe, the top rusher on last year's freshman team, came up with the play of the game when he returned a Dave Cody kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown. The runback, in which he cut through a nicely-formed wedge of blockers, then outran everybody up the right sideline, along with a 36-yd. run on a screen pass against the first-team defense, will put the West-borough native in line...
...writes: "In the last ten years, the coast's magnetic pull has become stronger than ever-more industry, more oil, more people, hotels, motels, boatels, more sewage, more waste. The coast is informing us that there is a saturation point beyond which its natural functions no longer flourish, often diminish, or simply cease...
...Communion. "Being included," Koch insists, "teaches the children more than 10,000 Sunday school lessons could." Koch's program, like the practice of the thriving Baptist Sunday schools, seems to bear out one fact: lesson plans, visual aids, outings are all well and good, but Sunday schools cannot flourish if parents do not go to church with their children. Worship has to be a family experience...