Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Firmage, however, travels quite a bit farther into la-la land, insisting that he's in contact with a hush-hush federal lab that will release world-shattering experimental data in a matter of months. "This is real," he maintains. "And it's the story of the millennium...
...that I wanted to talk to him about why he wouldn't talk to me. The maverick McCain, if he could be lulled back into Dial-a-Quote mode, could explain the odd coalition of impeachment hawks, who want to keep the trial going in hopes they can finally land their prey, and process groupies, who want to keep the trial going largely to pass constitutional muster. He could explain that peculiar on-again, off-again relationship between Trent Lott and Orrin Hatch. He could explain Trent Lott...
Earlier this month, Barker's fight to reclaim the land--now dotted with red FOR SALE signs and yellow NO TRESPASSING signs--got a boost. The U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed to settle a 1997 class action that had accused the agency of denying black farmers loans and crop subsidies routinely available to white farmers. The landmark agreement requires the government to pay as much as $375 million to more than 3,500 black farmers. Most will probably accept the basic option guaranteeing a $50,000 tax-free payment and retirement of any government debts, which average about...
...happy about the acknowledgment of government wrongdoing, but they feel a long way from whole. "We were at the point where we felt like there was just no justice," says Dorathy. "The greatest loss of all is the breakup of our family." The Barker children were forced off the land on which they had lived all their life--land on which they had hoped to set up various businesses, including a family dairy, day-care center and beauty parlor...
Says Barker: "I don't know if we'll get the land back, but Mr. Smith is going to know he's got a fight on his hands. If they had sold the farm legally, I could move on. But there is no way I can leave with this thing unresolved. We had a right to this land, and we're not through farming...