Word: leflar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president before going to Washington. Clinton had become familiar with Fayetteville, the Ozark campus town, during his summers at band camps, and he wrote his junior paper on the university. He had acquired a circle of friends in that corner of the state -- and even another surrogate father, Eli Leflar, who had been on a Masonic panel that gave Clinton one of his many prizes. Clinton began visiting Leflar and dating his daughter. Only Georgetown -- or, more precisely, only Washington -- was more attractive to him than the school in Fayetteville, where he would later apply to teach...
...more dangerous is pollution caused by the poultry industry, the most dominant in Arkansas. Growers have been dumping tons of dried chicken excrement, known as litter, on croplands in the northwestern part of the & state. "We're well past the land's capacity to accept the waste," says Robert Leflar, a Sierra Club official; he and others fear the litter will seep through porous limestone and contaminate streams and groundwater. Clinton in 1990 appointed an animal-waste task force to look into the problem (a favorite tactic: his first move in almost any crisis is to appoint a task force...
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