Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partisans assert, a more congenial climate-than Miami. Says former Mayor John Austin, a retired Marine Corps major and avid fisherman: "I really think the possibilities here are unlimited." Not surprisingly, the town is alive with the sound of bulldozers, and spanking new condominiums are sprouting like dune grass. Eight buildings with 306 condominium units are under construction, and 116 more units are on the way. "We're on the grow," boasts City Manager Kirby Lilljedahl. "We had $8 million in new construction last year, and 1979 could well double that...
Health officials feared that the pastures where Hershey cows graze might be contaminated by radioactivity from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Cows' milk could absorb cancer-causing radioactive material from the grass which the cows eat, the officials added...
...notice these kids. Gangling Dan Voll, 18, is one of the stock boys at Pacemaker Foods in Rockford, Ill. Teresa Slowen works part time as a waitress in the Sundance Restaurant in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Curly-haired John Barker is the kid who cuts the grass in Birmingham, Mich...
Lamkin's message has clearly been received by Washington. Both Congress and the White House are paying increasing attention to the burgeoning grass-roots feeling that the Government has lost control of federal expenditures and that chronic deficit spending is fueling inflation. But just how well Washington understands the message is another matter...
...huge treaty books were ready at last. Bound in gilt-edged blue morocco leather, there were nine copies of the document, one each for each participant in Hebrew, Arabic and English. White House crews had already tended the greening patch of grass at the site of the ceremony, placed a low riser on the spot and then tenderly carried from the second-floor Treaty Room the sturdy Victorian table that had been pur chased in the time of Ulysses S. Grant. Used by the Cabinet up to the day of Teddy Roosevelt, the table had witnessed some important business. Calvin...