Word: milke
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...economic difficulties for which no solution is in sight. Nearly three decades after its birth, the European Community is far from being the incipient United States of Europe that its founders dreamed of. Instead, it is a loose grouping of countries that bicker interminably over farm budgets and milk prices, customs duties and value-added taxes. Economic growth for Western Europe will average only about 2.5% this year, or just half the U.S. rate. Europeans who in the mid-'70s looked on the U.S. as a nation weakened by Viet Nam, Watergate and economic stagnation now marvel...
Feinstein, 50, came to prominence under the most harrowing circumstances. On the morning of Nov. 27, 1978, while working in her city hall office as president of the board of supervisors, she heard a commotion down the hall and discovered the body of Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first avowed homosexual elected to a city-wide office in San Francisco. He had been gunned down by an ex-colleague and political enemy on the board, Dan White. Moments later she heard the news that White had also shot and killed Mayor George Moscone in another part of the building. That automatically...
...state-funded study found that lottery regulars are predominantly white males with a median age of 36 and a household income of $20,000. Says Charlie Buri, who voted against Arizona's lottery but now serves as its director: "People aren't taking the bread and milk off the table to play the lottery...
...more false I appear, and I become too young as age creeps on") to everyone's favorite author, Anonymous ("What turns without moving?" "What goes out but never comes back?" "What is it that you will break even if you name it?"). Answers: Lice; a portrait; milk; breath; silence...
...sequence of events that led to the disaster began last November. Sotelo, then a $35-a-week hospital electrician with a family of three, took a milk bottle-size, stainless-steel canister from the hospital's warehouse. Sotelo says hospital administrators had given him permission to sell leftover utensils for scrap. He heaved the canister into the back of a hospital truck and hauled it to a local junkyard, where a dealer gave him $10 for it. Unfortunately, Sotelo and the dealer were unaware that the canister was part of a radiography machine and contained a capsule that held...