Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would stay sober and supervise, made his comments the night before Mardi Gras. He said the route had to be kept secret. "If you let everybody know where the route is, they might leave home. After all, 150 horses are fairly traumatic on a lawn...
Fahd's arrival to a 21-gun salute on the South Lawn of the White House marked only the second time he and President Reagan had met; the first was at the 1981 North-South summit of world leaders in Cancun, Mexico. The Saudis feel that Israel is currently vulnerable, and thus more susceptible than usual to U.S. pressures for a settlement, on two counts: its economy has faltered badly, and Reagan's re-election has temporarily reduced the clout of what the Saudis regard as an overpowering Israeli lobby. "The Palestinian question . . . is the cause of instability and turmoil...
...light changed, shifting from pinks to the final deep purple, a splendid spectacle that would have held George Washington in its spell. Her husband, who was rarely humbled, used to fall silent when his helicopter came close in beside the monument on its approach to the White House South Lawn. From the window of the presidential helicopter, the stone expanse seems to blot out everything on the horizon and reach to the heavens...
...subsidiaries with assets of $1.7 billion. That will be a 12% slash in the company's current assets of $14.1 billion. Officials disclosed only a partial list of the units for sale. They include Eason Oil, the Bobbs-Merrill publishing house and O.M. Scott & Sons, which makes Turf Builder lawn fertilizer. ITT also intends to sell a minority interest in its Sheraton hotel chain. The company will keep Hartford Insurance and most of its holdings in the telecommunications and defense industries...
...tribute to U.S. history, with a narration by Actor Fess Parker that included excerpts from presidential swearing-in addresses beginning with George Washington's in 1789. The 1 1/4-hour pageant ended with a gigantic fireworks display set off from both sides of the Ellipse and the White House South Lawn to ignite directly over the Washington Monument...