Word: lushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are grade school students, for the most part, and they are visiting Harvard's Arnold Arboretum to compare its lush greenery with the miniature plots they tend in their schoolyards...
...azaleas are in bloom in Metairie, a neatly landscaped New Orleans suburb where conservatives vastly outnumber liberals and the lush estates of the wealthy border the trim wood-and-stucco bungalows of the middle class. But there was a deeper shade of red last week on the faces of national Republican leaders over what the residents of Metairie, who populate Louisiana's 81st legislative district, had wrought. Some 78% of the district's 21,464 registered voters, only 52 of whom are black, had turned out to give a vacant statehouse seat to David Duke, 38, a former grand wizard...
...inch below the lush turf of the Reagan prosperity, fault lines are already formed. While the elderly have grown more affluent, one-fifth of America's children live in poverty. While there was a legitimate need to increase defense resources, the Administration tolerated such sloth that blatant waste and scams eventually evoked an anti-Pentagon backlash. While Reagan celebrated deregulation as the key to a more creative economy, lax scrutiny of the savings and loan industry contributed to widespread failures that will cost taxpayers tens of billions. Wall Street's obsession with wasteful takeovers diverted resources away from constructive investment...
...once a crucial Pacific outpost where officers were trained during World War I. Today the Presidio, with its tree-shaded trails and historic architecture, is a popular tourist destination. Illinois' Fort Sheridan processed 500,000 soldiers during World War II. These days, the base is most famous for a lush golf course...
With a barely audible whoosh, the large doors at the entrance open to a spacious glass-walled hall filled with lush green plants and the soothing sound of a trickling miniature waterfall. But the sleek municipal building in Machida, a bustling city in central Japan, is not a pristine botanical garden. The enticing entrance is merely the facade of a $65 million facility built to handle a dirty job: recycling the wastes of the city's 340,000 residents. "We collect roughly 100,000 tons of garbage a year and convert it back into valuable materials," says a smiling Kenichi...