Word: junction
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...north, in Grand Junction, Colo., floods broke a dike and prompted the evacuation of more than 1,300 residents. Downstream, hundreds of houses and businesses in Arizona and California river settlements were flooded, and vital tourist business was badly crimped. "This is a man-made disaster, and there's no excuse for it," says Sandy Fields, owner of the Castle Rock Shores Resort in hard-hit Parker, Ariz. "It's just plain stupidity...
...time, Stutman regarded his letter as a routine move, but some Vermonters thought otherwise. Said White River Junction Realtor Chas Baker: "Just about anybody who walks through my doors fits at least one of the profile's criteria." An editorial in the Rutland, Vt, Herald sharply criticized the DEA request, using the headline REALTORS AS NARCS. Some residents even complained to the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, whose executive director, Scott Skinner, found that the DEA profile "smacks of Big Brotherism...
...Bondi Junction, Australia
...objets d'art: a porcelain unit with a hand-knotted silk cord ($495); the shimmering Shellamar Abalone, with its own pearlescent finish ($250) by TeleConcept Inc. of Hartford, Conn. Others are objets de nostalgia: the 1930s-vintage Candlestick ($139) with its separate mouthpiece and earpiece; the Country Junction ($265), which has an oak case and two brass bells...
...hard to see why Bryant is a cherished man, but he is not a candidate for sainthood. "All of the other schools were doing it, so we did it too," he openly confesses his Texas A&M recruiting sins, the usual ones involving cash and cars. While the infamous Junction, Texas, training camp of 1954 is a fond piece of his fable to some, Bryant is not proud of running 69 of 96 Aggie football players off the team. The brutal 110° F heat was not the only brutality. "It was terrible," he says. "All my life...