Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kraus, who has a Harvard Ph.D in economics, says some people criticized his University experience as useless because "politics don't go according to the book on Beacon Hill." But, he says, those people don't know university politics...
Being a Democrat in Nassau County might best be defined as the politics of the down and out. We have no inspiring candidates, close to no money and almost no voter support. We are used to losing, and probably wouldn't even know what to do if we won. The result is one-party, closed-door government, running local affairs with no effective opposition...
...imitate their reformist neighbors but can't help looking anxiously over their shoulder. "They are all worried about the fallout from change elsewhere," said a Western diplomat in the region. A Bulgarian proverb captures the fears: "When the Gypsy's bear is dancing in your neighbor's yard, you know it will soon come to yours...
...themselves singing about the evils of mining and trapping to audiences that included miners and trappers. That made for some uncomfortable moments. One night a big, burly Alaskan came up after the show and said, "There's plenty of wilderness here. It's endless. Go home. You don't know what you're talking about...
Hunting outfitters and stockmen scuff their cowboy boots in the dirt, unconvinced, as Askins talks. Some of them like to draw a line between Eastern ecobabblers, who puff wolves as gallant symbols of wildness, and true Westerners, who know them as cruel and cowardly and who can be relied on to "shoot, shovel and shut up," as the brag goes in the cowboy bars. But, Brad Little, a stockman from Emmett, Idaho, concedes, "It's not so much wolves we're afraid of, it's wolf managers." Exactly. The wolves themselves, though they are sure to range beyond park boundaries...