Word: land
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...ideas are best for the country. Simon recognizes that America is fast becoming a land divided: with the affluent and educated on one side, and the destitute and the drop-out on the other. (Divisions that have been enhanced by the policies of the Reagan Administration.) That is why Simon, an author of 10 books and newspaper publisher at 19, has targeted his programs for the future on improving education and eliminating illiteracy. Compare that to his so-called liberal foe, Mike Dukakis, who has received poor grades from Massachusetts public educators for being stingy on public university funding...
...Buster") Linville, 77, is an Oak Ridge tobacco farmer who owns 300 acres of land and lives in an antiques-filled ranch house overlooking his own fishing pond. "Tobacco farmers are just doing fair," says he. "All the antismoking stuff does not add to our income, and farmers are afraid tobacco will leave them." Linville believes Gore will look out for his interests. "He's more Southern than the rest of them," he says. But "I'm not enthused," he concludes, adding cryptically...
...hoarse whisper, sometimes cracked with emotion. He embarked upon an extemporaneous litany, begging forgiveness in sequence from Wife Frances (who nodded and smiled tightly), from Son Donnie (who mouthed the words "I love you"), from pastors and missionaries of his denomination, from fellow TV evangelists across the land and from his followers around the world...
...that the judges must deduct points if the dancers execute a forbidden move. In ice dancing, for example, the prohibitions included lifting the woman above the man's shoulders and knee slides. In the pairs and singles short programs, skaters lose at least .4 of a point if they land their combination jump on two feet; a fanny fall calls for a .5-point reduction...
...year-old boy as he says goodbye to his father at the Minneapolis train station and sets off on an odyssey that will take him, in carefully prearranged steps, to bombing raids over Okinawa. Along the way, the provincial Midwesterner discovers unfamiliar places in his native land: Denton, Texas; Athens, Ga.; Memphis and air stations scattered along the coasts of Florida and California. He and the friends he acquires learn to fly planes, the machines and the maneuvers growing increasingly complex: "Sometimes I had secret doubts: would I ever be ready? Would I know when I was? The Navy...