Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year Assmus flew over the state's backwoods to check out reports of clandestine pot farms. "We saw a whole lot more than we ever suspected," he recalls, flipping through color photos of half-acre patches that pock the hillsides. "It's all over the place." To escape detection, many weed farmers raise their plants on terrain owned by the government or the lumber companies. Rural police say they do not have the time or the money to chase after all the tiny plots in remote areas. Residents sympathize with the lawmen's plight and pay little heed...
...best-tasting grass," says one participant, "you might win a bottle of wine; for the best-smelling grass, a snort of cocaine. It's a lot of fun and everybody's relieved that they made it through the season...
...price of Califano's plan was originally estimated at $2.8 billion, but its critics now claim that the plan would increase welfare payments by $20 billion a year or more. Congress is considering other ways of tackling welfare, all of which face a major problem: they add a lot more money to the budget during a period of concern over inflation...
...could reapply for positions in the new firm, but talk to a few of these officials and the general consensus is that somebody is trying to get rid of them. Or, as one member of the department expressed it, "If you're a paranoid person, there might be a lot here to be paranoid about...
...board member and the operations director of the Harvard Real Estate Corporation, directed the study and the 10,000 page report which is now being xeroxed and bound. "It seemed appropriate to do this kind of analysis for all Harvard properties and it has told us a lot about the kinds of improvements we can make," Wyatt says...