Word: leached
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...portrait or statue honors Abby Leach, the ambitious young woman who in 1878 sought out the instruction of three separate Harvard professors...
Each night thousands of students copy Loy's partying routine at the half a dozen bars that surround the campus of 38,000 students. "This is the best place to have a good time," says junior George Leach, a starter on the Hoosiers' basketball team. Editors at the Princeton Review apparently agreed. Last summer the college-guide publisher named Indiana the No. 1 party school in the nation...
Even when Professor W. Barton “Pappy” Leach only allowed female students to speak on designated “ladies days”—when questioning generally related to cases involving underwear—few protested...
That was before she learned how completely the old windmills had been supplanted by pumps that drink from the deep and fast depleting Ogallala Aquifer, or how much the region has been penetrated by giant hog farms, corporate operations that can leach toxic waste into the water table and foul the air for miles with burning stink. So now her main character is Bob Dollar, a young man who comes to the Panhandle from Colorado to secretly scout locations for Global Pork Rind, an outfit based in Tokyo that wants to start vast hog farms. As you might expect, Dollar...
...mayor of Bettendorf, a suburban town on the Mississippi, she was courted by both parties. The Republicans wanted her to run for lieutenant governor four years ago; she didn't like the head of the ticket. The Dems, in 1996, asked her to vie for Congress against Jim Leach; she figured he couldn't lose. But with redistricting last year, Leach moved west, leaving Nussle the man to beat in the First District. "He lost much of his rural base; 42% of the district's population is new for him," says Hutchinson. "And he's never...