Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stop in the town of Wenona, Bush told the crowd that the three sisters had been giving a country concert in the bus, and "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven." George Bush, out of Kennebunkport and Houston, out of Andover and Yale, had a little mountain twang in his voice when he said it, standing in twill trousers and a cowboy shirt. Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter out of Butcher's Hollow, Ky., told the crowd she loves George Bush " 'cuz he's country...
...muscle- bound A' s and the self- effacing Dodgers, California has made a private preserve of the annual passage Tommy Lasorda actually calls "the fall classic." Orel Hershiser peers in for the sign; Jose Canseco lifts a bolt of mountain ash. When they are finished, winter will be in sight. -- Wanna do an inning of play- by- play...
...race carefully. He is a Democrat, saying that "all Dukakis has to do to win my vote is to stay alive." But Reese says a Dukakis victory will be an uphill climb. Dukakis is at a disadvantage, Reese says, because the Republicans have a hold on the West and Mountain states. For Dukakis to win, Reese says, he must have a better campagin organization than Vice President George Bush, benefit from a Bush gaffe or get across to the voters the idea that Dan Quayle is unqualified to be vice president...
Junk bonds are piling up on top of a huge mountain of existing debt. The world's commercial banks hold almost half of the $1.2 trillion in Third World debt. That debt is choking growth in half the world, and most of it will never get repaid. At the same time, both banks and savings and loan associations have made billions of dollars' worth of bad loans to the real estate and energy industries...
...critique of traditional legal thought and how law is made," says Pat DePace, a second-year American University law student. Traditional legal scholars "try to teach you it's like the Ten Commandments coming down from the mountain, and that it's always right. CLS people tell [you] politics of the time and the social climate have an effect on the decisions that are made. There's a lot more aspects...