Word: lode
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Says the Rev. Rex Heath, 65, who runs the Mother Lode Christian School in Tuolumne City, Calif.: "When the community appeals to higher standards of academics, that always kills spiritual values. All those schools like Yale and Harvard started out as Christian schools, but then they got concerned with quality." Tuition can be as low as $225, as high as $2,500 per year. But whatever they cost, the schools do seem to excel at training in basic skills, personal courtesy and classroom decorum. A cross section of Christian schools-Christian Liberty Academy. "Government schools are a taxpayer...
...faith that contradicts many of his own facts, Michener finds the possibility of a mother lode: "A grand coalition of black capacity, Coloured adaptability, English skill and Afrikaner force could forge a nation that would be one of the most powerful on earth, situated in one of the best settings, and with a way of life that most other people would envy...
Last week's surprises were only the beginning. NASA scientists expect their lode of data to yield discoveries for months to come. The advanced computer-enhancement techniques developed at J.P.L. for processing color photographs permit researchers to mute or intensify colors to help bring out the faintest details. It was during a photographic fine-tuning session, while he was rerunning fairly distant views of Saturn on the TV screen, that J.P.L. Scientist Stewart Collins, working with David Carlson, a visiting student from Drexel University, discovered the planet's 13th and 14th moons...
...little coal that virtually none has been mined in 50 years. Its oil bill of $3.1 billion last year made it the world's largest per capita importer. On the other hand, the country has Western Europe's largest uranium deposit, the unmined 300,000-ton Ranstad lode in southern Sweden, which some regard as their future energy ace in the hole...
...They got the mother lode in this one." The heist ranks with the Lufthansa robbery in 1978 at New York City's Kennedy Airport, in which thieves stole $5.8 million worth of currency and jewelry being handled by the airline. By contrast, the famed 1950 Brinks robbery in Boston netted about $2.8 million...