Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great Caesar's Ghost...
...crop until then, or only 60% of it? To complicate matters further, a farmer can work out deals to sell part of his crop in October, say, but get the cash next January if that would be better for tax purposes. All of which should stir pride in the ghost of William Jennings Bryan, who insisted in his 1896 cross-of-gold speech that "the farmer ... is as much a businessman as the man who goes upon the board of trade and bets upon the price of grain...
Stanley H. Hoffman, professor of Government and chairman of a special Faculty Council subcommittee formed last spring to study the CRR reform proposals, said yesterday, "I don't see a ghost of a chance for the Faculty Council accepting the reforms wholesale as they (the CRR) proposed them...
...like Flower Mound were located outside the path of growth of their cities. As a result, all the HUD new towns have experienced slower-than-expected growth. Flower Mound has attracted only 420 residents in six years, out of a projected eventual population of 61,141. Gananda was a ghost town until a developer took over last year. Besides that, a number of the ventures were built by energy firms, shopping center developers, civic groups and others with no new town experience...
...ghost of Lyman Bullard has come back to haunt Harvard soccer...