Word: land
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Wedtech. Again at Wallach's urging, Meese in 1982 provided what McKay called "instrumental" help to Wedtech, a New York City firm, so that it could land a $32 million Government contract. He intervened despite warnings by Fred Fielding, counsel to the President, and Craig Fuller, assistant to the President, that the White House should not get involved in contract awards. McKay, however, found no evidence that Meese got anything of value for his assistance or violated...
...insanity." Says Doug McVay, project coordinator for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: "What they're talking about here is a rape of the environment that may end up poisoning some people." The DEA subsequently clarified its announcement, saying paraquat would be sprayed only on private land...
...make its progress in race relations because of any blissful absence of bigotry -- it has always had its full share of violent racism -- but because an organized and resourceful black community constantly pushed a white leadership that was at least pragmatic. Now it is said to be a land of opportunity for black managers -- who, during the day, mix easily with whites. It also has a huge black underclass reflected in a poverty rate that is the second highest of any American core city. When I lived in Atlanta, at the height of the struggle, the interests of poor black...
...Lloyd Jr. was born in a small cottage on a dirt road in Mission, Texas. "Big Lloyd" arrived in Texas from South Dakota with $1.50 in his pocket and became one of the largest landowners in the Rio Grande Valley. He started his empire with a grocery and a land-clearing operation. He hired Mexican laborers to clear the land, and instead of paying them half the contract price, as was the custom, he paid them the full amount -- but in scrip good only in the grocery store. Soon he was buying the land he was clearing; the small cottage...
...Texas standards. Bentsen linked Yarborough with antiwar demonstrations and ran commercials of the uproar outside the 1968 Democratic Convention to make his point. He labeled Senator Edmund Muskie, who came to campaign for Yarborough, an ultra-liberal. Yarborough kicked up dust as well, calling the Bentsens a family of land frauds and exploiters, a reference to lawsuits that were filed against the senior Bentsen and settled out of court. Bentsen's successful general-election race against George Bush was a much more genteel affair: a Houston insurance millionaire and a Houston oil millionaire did not have much to argue about...