Word: oak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field much the way his forebears did three centuries ago--tugging at the yoke of a Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as he hauls another stack of feed corn to his son-in-law's silo. Like their ancestors, Jacob and his kin light their farmhouses with gas lanterns and drive carriage horses--never automobiles--back and forth to town...
...really kind of interesting to look at," says Robert P. Stefanik, director of the Oak Ridge Observatory, 30 miles away from Cambridge. "What you sometimes can see is the changing brightness, since as it moves, the panels reflect light in different ways relative to the earth...
Molten's story intrigues investigators because it also seems to hint at a larger pattern. Records show that Knight lobbied Grumbly in Lockheed Martin's fight to hold on to its $40 million-a-year fee to manage an Oak Ridge, Tenn., research facility. Lockheed got an extra five years of work in two Energy Department awards that coincided with big D.N.C. donations--$15,000 given 13 days before a two-year extension in 1995, and $125,000 within weeks of the 1996 decision to add three years more to the contract. A Lockheed spokesman denied any link...
...unanimous. In private the Vice President can be an inordinately charming fellow: informal, enthusiastic, self-deprecating, with the kind of knowing wit that many baby boomers admire. But switch on a TV camera or get him in front of a crowd, and a mysterious alchemy transforms him into solid oak. This is the Al Gore the public has come to know--something akin to the robotic Abe Lincoln at Disneyland, only less lifelike...
...response to your deplorable corporate propaganda, which masquerades as an article about students' efforts to bring fast food to Harvard Square, I suggest that it would be far better for Harvard and the community with which it interacts if Ronald and his pals stayed in Oak Brook. --Joel B. Pollak...