Word: mi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infested areas just south of San Francisco, they were racing against the marvelous reproductive capacities of the tiny Mediterranean fruit fly: a mature female can produce 1,000 eggs over its two-month life span. Last week alone, the targeted area expanded from 120 to 140 to 180 sq. mi. and fears mounted that the fly was about to break out of the Bay Area and move into the lush farm lands of the San Joaquin Valley. The long-range worry: a federal quarantine, which would cripple the state's $14 billion farm industry and send produce prices soaring...
Like Reagan, Sandra O'Connor has spent many of her happiest days on a Western ranch, riding horses and even roping steers. Her parents, Harry and Ada Mae Day, operated a 260-sq.-mi. cattle spread straddling the New Mexico-Arizona border. Called the Lazy B, it had been in the Day family since 1881 -three decades before Arizona became a state. Her grandfather had traveled from Vermont to found it. Sandra, first of the Days' three children, was born in an El Paso hospital because the remote area in which they lived had no medical facilities; their...
These days there are ample signs that the ghosts, along with other problems, are haunting Argentina's ruling military circles. The land they govern is vast (over 1 million sq. mi.), sparsely populated (28 million people), and has long been one of the great granaries and beef exporters in the world. But Argentina's ceaselessly turbulent politics, oscillating for decades between chaotic populism and military dictatorship, have kept the country from realizing its enormous potential. Today, the Argentine economy is deteriorating badly. The inflation rate, for years the world's highest, had declined from...
...rivals, are an American entrepreneur and his 26-year-old female partner, an executive sweet who seems a bit anachronistic for 1963. For readers who tire of bank runs and stock manipulations, the author weaves in an elaborate spy story that involves the CIA, the KGB, Britain's MI-6 and the spy networks of both Chinas. The sex is rather decorous, but for sports buffs, there are rousing horse races. And the roiling cast of characters includes people like Four Finger Wu and Good-weather Poon. Ayeeyah...
...start, government officials had been convinced that members of the Civil Guard had been involved in the bank raid because of the terrorists' discipline, and the fact that some carried regulation machine guns. The terrorists also addressed their leaders only as "No. 1," "No. 2," or as "Mi primero" (My chief), in military parlance. The government sent the Civil Guard commander to negotiate with the terrorists and assure them that they would get "military treatment," a hint of leniency in a court-martial, if they would surrender. But there were no military men at all among the nine terrorists...