Word: lande
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Jimmy's counterpart Cliff is a stoic, but Marmor takes this impertubability too far. Cliff may be a "noman's land" between Jimmy and Alison, but he is also clever, and Marmor sometimes allows humorous lines to go by without giving them the wit they deserve...
Despite a perceived anti incumbent fever across the land, the vote yesterday was decidedly anti-Democratic, political pundits said. Election results show a complete distaste for President Clinton -- as evidenced by the defeat of the popular Texas Governor Ann Richards. In exit polls, about half of the voters leaving polling places said their pocketbook situations hadn't improved under Clinton and a quarter said things were worse for them. So the voters got even with Democrats -- the party running Congress for most of their lifetimes. "Not since 1952 have Republicans controlled the United States Congress," crowed Sen. Bob Dole...
...changed dramatically since the end of the nineteenth century. We no longer have a limitless amount of land or resources. Our competitors have grown stronger in recent decade, and we can ill afford the task of absorbing millions of unskilled, largely uneducated illegal immigrants...
...sheer bulk of the harvest rolling into the towering prairie elevators and barges along the great rivers is not the entire story. The yield per acre of land has been phenomenal. Early government estimates were for 33.5 bushels per acre of soybeans. That went up to 40.5 bushels per acre before the harvest began. "That is the distinguishing feature," claims economist Collins. "I've never seen an estimate move so far above the trend line. Statistically, it is one chance in a hundred." The average for corn leaped from 127 bushels to 134 bushels per acre...
Many farmers held their breath as the spring thaws came to a land still saturated with water. Last April, Blake Hurst, 37, who farms 2,500 acres with his father and two brothers near Westboro, Missouri, stood in a soggy snow flurry and looked down on the family's land in the Tarkio River valley, more than a third of which had been covered with water 15 months ago. Bulldozers growled and snorted, pushing dirt back into breaches in the series of levees that have protected the Hurst holdings for three generations. "What is it going to be this year...