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...that?" says Baker, shifting again. "That's a hog wallow. They love to get down and dirty in it. Beautiful here, isn't it? I bet the contras would love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Geographically, the selection of Thornburgh creates a problem for the Republicans, but not a great one. It may even prove strategic. By selecting a Northeasterner, Bush can go whole hog in pretending to be a Texan which he will need to do to beat Bentsen in the Longhorn State. And with Thornburgh on the ticket, such a move won't mean sacrificing support in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Sticking A Thorn (burgh) in the Democrats' Side | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

...that specter down for a little while longer. He did as a boy in the 1930s. "The country around here is not as bad off as it was then, not yet anyway," Malard said. His dad planted seeds that never sprouted. The dust blew so much it covered a hog house on his grandfather's farm. Malard walked right over the top of it. About the only thing that dimmed the sun during the big dry of those years was the clouds of swarming grasshoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Dakota: The Big Dry | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...Already commodity prices have soared. Corn and soybeans are at a two-year high. Livestock, with nowhere to graze and no water to drink, are being sent to slaughter early. The sudden glut of meat on the market has caused hog prices to fall 10% in the past three weeks and feeder-cattle prices to plunge 9% in five weeks; even so, consumers will soon face higher food costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting, And Praying, for Rain | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...growing number of shutouts, say admissions experts, is caused in part by ! ambitious parents who push their youngsters to carve too high on the academic hog. A name-brand college, says Steinbrecher, "has become a status symbol, like a Gucci shirt." Moreover, the crush of applicants from affluent white suburbs has created a generation of qualified look-alikes, all of whom simply cannot get in, especially when schools are seeking diverse student bodies. A third factor is what admissions people call the scalp takers: top students who sit on a fistful of acceptances, hogging places that might have been offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Campus Scramble to Recruit | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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