Word: homestead
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...destruction and few hotels in the disaster zone, 5,000 to 10,000 itinerant workers and locals now live in these makeshift tent cities, according to estimates by Dade County officials. Mike Anelli, a 28-year-old carpenter from New Jersey who has set up camp near the destroyed Homestead Air Force Base, says he wakes nightly to the sound of gunfire. "It's like a Mad Max movie after a nuclear war, what with the fires at night, the rusted heaps of cars and all the fighting here," he says...
Like Clinton, Reno is an Ivy League law graduate (Harvard '63) with a down- home background. When she was a girl her parents, both reporters, moved the family to a homestead near the Everglades. Her mother was a crusty good ole gal known for wrestling alligators and building much of the log-and-stone house where Reno still lives...
...hear the prairie spaces and the melancholy of divided lives that were Cather's true territory in Maniacs songs like Stockton Gala Days and Gold Rush Brides. "Who were the homestead wives?" the latter asks. "The land was free, yet it cost their lives . . . In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like...
Bush said he was committed to rebuilding Homestead Air Force Base, the one struck by Hurricane Andrew, even though the base, which would cost hundreds of millions to recreate, only narrowly escaped the list of bases to be closed last year...
They must go through this over and over. There was Homestead Air Force Base, for example, which probably would have been mothballed anyway if Andrew hadn't got to it first. Bush wanted to spend $480 million rebuilding Homestead. Why not use the money to rebuild Floridians' actual homes? And what the Pentagon won't take, someone else will buy: 72 F-15s to provide jobs for Missourians, 150 F-16s for the Texans -- with Saudi Arabia and Taiwan footing the bills...