Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...executive must concentrate far more on winning the general election than on agency reorganization or new Oval Office drapes. He must guard against overcommitting himself, both to prospective policies and to job seekers, but still display the confidence of a man who already sees himself lounging on the East Lawn...
Talking about life around the White House, Rosalynn recalled the night she was doing political work while the President wrote a speech. Then they jogged on the White House South Lawn, jumped in the pool and swam together. The whole thing she found "just wonderful." The two of them are on one of the greatest adventures left on this planet...
...hours later, Carter was the genial host at a far different kind of picnic: a shindig on the South Lawn of the White House for some 800 labor leaders and their wives. Desperately in need of labor support, Carter last week was rewarded with the endorsement of the diminished but still influential...
...mart has prospered because of a no-frills policy that places the premium on value. In stores that usually have the ambience of a supermarket, customers can wander amid clothing, lawn chairs and stereos, rarely encountering a sales assistant. But the prices, as much as 15% below those at tonier stores, make up for the inconvenience...
...barely one-fifth still stand. In Champaign-Urbana, Ill., there were 14,000 elms at the end of World War II. Now there are only 220. A celebrated loss occurred a year and a half ago, when one of the most venerable elms on the White House lawn, a 105-ft. giant planted in the days of Rutherford B. Hayes, had to be felled and carted...