Word: lake
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...antidevelopment campaign that some fellow Republicans regarded lightly. Reversing his adopted city's boom-minded policies, he led the city council to impose strict curbs on San Diego's growth, raise bond issues for parks, and activate a plan to revitalize the downtown. Born in Lake Forest, Ill., Wilson attended Yale and won a law degree from the University of California. Elected to the first of three terms in the California assembly in 1966, he was named Republican whip in his first term-an unprecedented honor...
...heaven is actually hotter than hell. The reasoning goes like this: heaven, which the Bible says receives 49 times as much radiation from the sun as the earth does (Isaiah 30:26), would therefore have a temperature of 525° C. Hell, where the main topographical feature is a lake of molten brimstone (Revelation 21:8), could have a temperature of no more, no less, than 444.6° C. Above that temperature, the brimstone would vaporize; much below it, the lake would harden...
...halfway through his term in office, Soglin seems to have succeeded in doing just that. He has not moved fast or far enough to satisfy his more radical backers, nor has he gone too far for many of the middle-class merchants who formerly controlled the pleasant, lake-bordered city of 176,000. But he has managed to get both groups talking with each other and, in the process, given the city a year of good, if unconventional government...
...where they should go. "What he wants to see, we will show him," the Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach, Brezhnev said, "I think we shall please people both in the United States and hi our Soviet...
Last week the issue was raised starkly in a murder trial in rural Lake Pleasant, N.Y. Two attorneys for a man accused of one killing revealed that they had known for six months of two other murders committed by their client. They had kept silent because they felt bound by the confidentiality of the lawyer-client relationship...