Word: mowers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, Bruce Cook, Democratic state central committeeman for St. Clair County, recalls a coal miner telling him that "once a guy makes $30,000 a year, he buys a riding lawn mower and votes Republican." These voters, many of them Reagan Democrats, are conservative on social issues. Cook admits that Dukakis' veto of a compulsory Pledge of Allegiance to the flag is not going to help. But he counters by asserting, "Dan Quayle really hurts Bush with these people. They are macho, patriotic people who are working really hard to send their kids to college," qualities they...
...have one word they want to holler at Electrolux, the Stockholm-based appliance maker: Nej! The term (pronounced nay) is Swedish for no and expresses the intense local resentment toward Electrolux's two-month-old effort to buy Murray Ohio Manufacturing, a Tennessee bicycle and lawn-mower manufacturer that employs 2,900 workers at its Lawrenceburg plant...
Paul Hawken knows his customers well. Of the new generation of gardeners, he says, "their parents had a quarter acre with a power mower and a hedge clipper. They have 600 sq. ft. behind a condo and 90 different kinds of plants in it." But he does not disdain those who crave his lovingly designed tools made of second-growth ash. "Serious gardeners are like serious writers, painters, dancers," he says. "For people who view gardening as a craft, buying the best tool they can get is absolutely essential...
...from the looks of it, some dorms spend more time thinking of a creative name than practicing. The sporting monikers include the Holworthy East Dudemeisters, the Matthews South Funk Inspectors, the Grays Middle Wine and Cheese, the Holworthy We-Bads, the Thayer North Pretty Maids and, of course, the Mower Lawn Mowers...
...Three-man basketball is great," says William H. Dillon '91, Mower intramural representative. "It allows people with a little less ability to compete. It's a little less athletic and a little more...