Word: hay
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...stage is now crowded with Governors and mayors who have grown increasingly skillful at competing for the attention of the White House?and at making political hay by attacking its chief occupant. There is a further irony in Washington's giving funds to citizen groups so they may challenge the Government; many of those challenges end up on the White House doorstep...
Vellucci, however, has made a career of capitalizing even on his bad breaks, of making political hay out of the worst turns of fate. And this year, in what he says is his last campaign, Vellucci proved true to form--his handling of the near-scandal, he insists, will actually gain him votes in the long run. The key word is publicity, and Al Vellucci obviously knows...
Across the American farm belt, homemade signs are sprouting up faster than soybeans in June. They are posted on idle tractors, trucks and combines, on the sides of barns and the walls of farm cooperative offices. NO DEAL, NO MEAL, they proclaim. Or NO PAY, NO HAY. Or FOR YOUR NEXT BAG OF SUGAR, CALL FIDEL. Blunt and pithy, they capture perfectly the mood of America's angry, embattled farmers...
...make a gym, Shavers cleaned the bales of hay out of the barn and set up a ring and bags. Around the ring several wooden chairs filled up the space not required by tractor equipment...
Cimetidine owes its origin to the discovery that there are two types of receptor sites for histamine. The familiar site, associated with hay fever and other allergies, is in the nasal passages and nearby tissues. These conditions can be treated with a variety of widely prescribed antihistamines. But the drugs have no effect on the histamine receptors in the cells that secrete acid into the stomach...