Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the designs, ordered by parents to commemorate young children, are heartrending. One pictures a leaf blowing off the tree of life. Adults often choose occupational symbols: a sewing machine, a policeman's badge, a B-52 in remembrance of a Boeing employee who was loyal to the bitter end. There are also golfers, fishermen, a teen-ager's customized 1965 Mustang complete to the license plate BAD NUZ, and a skier taking off on a jump, above the legend BILL WENT FOR IT. One woman had her stone engraved with four aces over the Christian symbol...
...forms of workfare have been tried before, with limited success. Reagan cites California's Community Work Experience Program, which he claims put 75,000 people to work during his tenure as Governor. Yet records show that only about 9,600 welfare recipients received jobs. "It was essentially a leaf-raking operation," says California Legislative Analyst Tom Dooley. The program was allowed to expire...
Most of Stephens' detail is more to the point, though. His compilation is essentially a fuckup-by-fuckup account of what went wrong, and each goof is more chilling than the next. Consider the moments after a valve first failed and the "incident" began--operators feverishly leaf through Emergency Procedure (EP) notebooks, searching for a way to bring the reactor back to stability. The operators don't need a college degree, nor any training in engineering. They need to pass 14 hours of exams designed to test their knowledge of the EPs. Needless to say, no one had thought...
...does. He could take a punch better than anyone--partly because punching his head was like punching a provolone--and he had a left hook that could leave even Sugar Ray Robinson, maybe the best pound-for-pound fighter of all time, quivering on the mat like a dead leaf too long on the tree. He came out of the tough neighborhoods of the Bronx, and when it was over, he had an old middleweight title, a divorce, a bad morals rap in Miami, a gut like an ocean basin, and a comedy routine that got him places like...
...book on appeal to the state's highest court (his lawyers' fees:, $75,000). Now living in Ireland, Dacey released a thicker version of his manual last spring. He tries not to be bitter. "There are honest lawyers," says he, "just as there are four-leaf clovers...