Word: grounds
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...dinner is what is on your mind, and you don't care about game laws, turkeys are dead easy. Just throw some corn on the ground. They will come. You will shoot them. That is what happened a century and a half ago, and turkeys were so unwily that by the end of the 19th century they were within a tick of extinction, with only about 30,000 birds hiding out in swamps and hollows across the continent. The 7,000 birds that now roam New Hampshire are the descendants of 25 individuals trapped in New York's mountains...
...they romanticize the Vegas that was, before the corporations moved in to Disneyfy and democratize gambling. In the good old days, they say in their voice-over narration (of which there is far too much), the place was to wiseguys what "Lourdes was to hunchbacks and cripples," a holy ground where organized crime was free to practice its amoral rites and where that miracle cure for the terminally outcast--sudden, improbable wealth--was always a real possibility. There's something a little too easy in this conceit, although there's good black comedy in it too--especially in the notion...
...protests by millions of French public service workers who are angry at proposed job and benefit cutbacks. Bruce Crumley reports from Paris: "Polls show that about 54 percent of the French basically support the strikes. I guess they think that creating absolute havoc is justified. Air, rail and ground transport have ground to a halt. Schools, hospitals, post offices and sanitation are also shut down. Millions of Parisians have had to walk to work. The French are very unrealistic about their social service system. Cutting back on the fat in public sector jobs is the only way to reduce...
...service workers are staging a one-day strike, paralyzing a country that must face some tough fiscal decisions. Bruce Crumley reports from Paris: "Polls show that about 54 percent of the French basically support the strike. I guess they think that creating absolute havoc is justified. Air, rail, and ground transport have ground to a halt as a result of this strike. Schools, hospitals, post offices, and sanitation are also shut down. Millions of Parisians have had to walk to work. The French are very unrealistic about their social service system. Cutting back on the fat in public sector jobs...
...move likely to increase safety for students crossing Mass. Ave, between the River and the Yard, Cambridge has broken ground for a new park in Quincy Square, the triangular space between Mass. Ave, and Harvard Street behind Lamont Library...