Word: mississippi
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Harvard, which is ranked No. 16 in the country, has one of its toughest schedules in recent years on the horizon. The team will take on No. 8 Pepperdine, No. 12 Tennessee, No. 26 Kentucky and No. 4 Mississippi at the National Team Indoors in Seattle this month. The Crimson will also compete in both the Blue-Gray National Championships and the Santa Barbara Invitational...
...heat Monsanto is taking, the company did not create Terminator. The technology was developed by the USDA and a Mississippi seed company known as Delta and Pine Land, and the patent was awarded to both of them. Monsanto later made a $1 billion-plus offer to buy Delta--an offer that was quickly accepted...
...announcing that the Seamen's Church Institute, which has ministered to ocean mariners for 165 years, was expanding to the nation's towboat fleet. Within months, Wilkinson and his colleague Karen Cox were staring at a pastoral fiefdom encompassing the Ohio River, part of the Cumberland and the Mississippi from Greenville, Miss., up to Lock 27 above St. Louis--1,808 miles as the catfish swims...
Thank you for the kind mention of us as street performers in your piece on PBS's program about music along the Mississippi River [TELEVISION, Jan. 11]. However, we do not play just for "spare change," as your story stated. We want your money, honey! Throw us a dollar or throw us a five; help keep us alive! Or if you can afford plenty, give us a 20! We are winners of awards in New Orleans. Also, we play fairs and festivals all over the world. And here you can't even get coffee for spare change anymore. DAVID LEONARD...
...drunk on consensus. After the unanimous vote, Kennedy and his wife Victoria ran into Lott in a private room just off the Senate chamber. Lott gave her a big kiss: "How about some crawfish etouffe?" Lott joked when the discussion turned to favorite foods. Kennedy tried on his best Mississippi accent: "I want me a po'boy." The suggestion led to billows of laughter. "This is going to make the health-care bill of rights a piece of cake," said Kennedy...