Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union's first Premier from a Muslim republic. Aliyev joined the Soviet security force at 18, and headed the Baku branch of the KGB from 1967 to 1969. As Azerbaijan party leader, he has at tracted attention by cracking down on corruption and making his tiny Caucasian mountain fief into an agricultural success story. Aliyev has also kept Azerbaijan free of infection from Islamic fundamentalism in neighboring Iran...
...Check and compare your villa at Nofim against any other residential project in Israel," urges the newspaper ad. From every window, it promises, "a beautiful mountain landscape is visible." There will be "green areas, public areas, communal facilities and an exclusive country club," all of it only 40 minutes by car from Tel Aviv. Best of all, each villa, which will be built on a quarter acre of land, may be purchased for $90,000, a third of which is covered by government-financed mortgages and loans. This is not a bad deal, since a similar home in Jerusalem...
...past: 'We know best. This is the answer.' We are trying to engage the whole church in the same process the committee went through." Gumbleton's colleague, Bishop Reilly, agrees: "We aren't claiming this is Almighty God handing down the truth from the mountain as with Moses. It's the bishops of the U.S., trying to apply the teachings of Jesus Christ to issues never faced before by the human family...
...novel The Octopus by Frank Norris, which romanticizes the grain farmer, the villain is buried alive under a mountain of wheat. Across the Midwest, many farmers are increasingly fearful that they are about to be buried financially in a similar fashion. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed its estimates of record U.S. and world grain production in 1982. In Minnesota and the Dakotas, farmers are stuffing unsold wheat into their sheds, leaving tractors and combines out in the cold. An abandoned coal mine near Quincy, Ill., and an ammunition depot in Hastings, Neb., were recently readied...
...beatific. Designer David Mitchell has conjured up an image of ineffable peace, a smoky blue-green mountain solitude in Rabun County, Ga. As weathered as the clapboards on her home, Annie Nations (Tandy), 79, lives here alone...