Word: lakes
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...Englishman working for the World Health Organization in the arid northern province of a former French colony "in the dead heart of the African continent, a land as close to nowhere as the planet could provide." The southward creep of the Sahara and the drying up of nearby Lake Kotto have driven most of the native residents away, leaving the physician with hardly anyone to treat but General Harare and his ragtag band of Marxist guerrillas. But these rebel patients do not trust Mallory, because he has conceived a scheme to drill the dry lake bed and tap into...
...incidents, at the Geneva summit in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev seemed to be getting the better of Reagan in quotesmanship, Speakes recalled in a phone interview last week. As he rode along frigid Lake Geneva in his car, he searched his notes for a good Reagan quote to feed the ravenous media. He knew Reagan's reasons for going to the summit. He knew he could put them into words the President would approve. Propelled by the intensity of the moment and his sense of power, he slid into deceit...
...discount on the price of any pie that takes longer than 30 minutes to arrive, Domino's, now the second largest chain, has grown to 4,375 outlets. At least one Domino's operator even delivers by boat. Art Hurteau, 29, owner of an outlet on Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks, maintains a fleet of ten speedboats to get pies to vacationers. Starting this week, Hurteau's employees will be cruising the lake, taking orders from boaters and transmitting them to headquarters by radio. Pizza Hut, which in the past offered only table service and pies...
Four other ECAC players were honored. ECAC Player-of-the-Year Pete Lappin, who led St. Lawrence to the NCAA Championship Game, only to fall in overtime, 4-3, to Lake Superior State, was named a first-team selection, as was his teammate, defenseman Pete McColgan...
...Radcliffe heavyweight crew demolished Princeton and Cornell by respective 10- and 19-second margins Saturday in the Tigers' home waters of Lake Carnegie...