Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wildlife Service as a "predatory control officer." "Mostly I followed the sheep," he reminisces. "Something's always killing sheep." It was Lawrence's job to find the right rogue: one bear feeding off cattle among 30 who lived peacefully on Arizona's White River Apache land. A single lion killing sheep among a dozen living near one edge of the Grand canyon. "If I killed the wrong one, I wasn't doin' my job," he explains. "I'd lave to study a cat, learn where he fed, where he went to water, where...
...district in southeastern Iowa. He stopped at the home of Merle Glenney, who coaxed the Congressman into a pickup truck for a tour of his farm. Glenney urged Leach to seek lower inheritance taxes on farms that pass from one generation to another. He said the price of land is so high (up to $3,000 per acre in this area) that young farmers can rarely buy a farm and those who inherit one, as his son Dwight will one day, are hurt by heavy taxes...
...days. The economy's most disruptive decade since the Great Depression has borne the stagflation contradiction of no growth amid rampaging inflation, the can't do trauma of receding productivity in the nation that was long the world's cornucopia, the reality of an energy shortage in the land of supposedly boundless resources, and the debauch of a dollar that once was "as good as gold...
...enjoys writing off St. Paul as though it were a mill village, and Dallas takes malicious glee in depicting Fort Worth as the sticks. South Dakotans often pretend to believe that North Dakotans are an alien race, and northern Californians regard the state's southerly part as a land of incurable kooks. Chronic twitting, in fact, may be taken as a sure sign that provincial pride is robust...
...that tips are not included on the bill in the U.S. and cautions against going to Central Park at night. Sunday morning the group boards the first of its many private buses and heads for the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. Bewildered but obliging, the visitors from the land that created Gothic cathedrals troop up the aisle, assured that this is the biggest Gothic cathedral in the world...