Word: lake
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...largest recorded decline in that group. Public expenditure for education has not dropped, of course; inflation assures that the costs of operating schools will continue to go up. But new construction has been slowing down, and some schools have been forced to close for lack of pupils. Salt Lake City has closed 20 public schools, including three junior high schools, in the past eight years because of a 35% drop in enrollment. Elsewhere schools are being used for special classes, turned into offices, recreation centers or museums, or simply sold to anyone who can use them...
Abandoning his Deer Lake, Pa., training camp, the ex-champ drove to nearby Reading Hospital for some inoculations before his trip to Zaire this month to fight George Foreman. "I hate 'em; let's get 'em over with," protested Ali in mock terror as he awaited his bout with the needle. The challenger endured his prophylaxis against smallpox, yellow fever and polio, then grumbled, "My fights don't take this long...
...study areas-Honolulu, Houston, Miami, Milwaukee, Phoenix, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Vermont, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C. -nonsmoking donors had COHb levels just below the threshold: from 1.2% to 1.4%. The New York metropolitan area scored an average of 1.2% for 15 stations, mostly suburban (but Brooklyn rated 2.1% and a Manhattan blood center 2%). Three areas were on the 1.5% mark: Anchorage, San Francisco and Seattle. Five were over: Chicago 1.7%, Denver 2%, Detroit 1.6%, Los Angeles 1.8% and New Orleans...
...camera," notes Joe Collins of Orlando, Fla.'s Orange Cablevision. But stations encourage novices to air their efforts. Thus Orlando has recently seen one Warholesque half-hour that consisted of a man cutting down a tree, and another that zeroed (or zigzagged) in on the ducks around Lake Eola...
...outset, a wealthy and evil man named Farquarson lies dying in his mansion in Lake Forest, Ill. Years ago he railroaded his redundant wife into a mental institution, where she had a son by another inmate. Said inmate, a violent man named Helenowski, vowed deadly vengeance on the world. As the novel begins he has escaped and is busy killing people...