Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour early. Every seat is soon taken and still people are streaming in. Kalal announces that the caucus is moving to larger quarters in the basement of the Methodist Church a block away. Once there, Kalal starts looking for an outlet for his projector in back of the dark oak podium. But nowhere is there a three-prong outlet. Kalal, slightly ruffled, dispatches someone to find a blackboard. "I'll have to play this by ear," he says, opening the meeting. "I'm Jim Kalal, your temporary chairman, and this is your neighborhood caucus meeting. I guess...
...busy brothers Ernest and Julio have been growing varietal grapes, and paying their outside suppliers to plant them, since the early '60s, and have built an underground cellar the size of two football fields to age their wines in casks of French and Yugoslav oak. While they are the General Motors of American wine, in the tastings they enter the Gallos consistently win the kind of awards that go to Ferraris. Indeed, few California vintners of any size work so hard on the all-important process of vinification, the actual making of the wine...
...power plants which offer environmentalist groups easy targets to attack corporate villains such as public utilities. There are undoubted hazards in nuclear power, especially on the question of the disposal of nuclear wastes, but no serious physicist with whom I have discussed the issue (I spent several weeks at Oak Ridge in making myself less of an amateur on this issue) believes that even the most serious damage that, for example, might have resulted at Three Mile Island would be a calamity comparable to a major nuclear exchange. Even a relatively small number of nuclear weapons now available in such...
...Bell, she ran away with a four-fingered gambler one night on the six o'clock boat to Louisville. Laskey Bell, now a rich man, sent his son to Andover and forgot about his wife, living alone in the majestic house he had built for her out of white oak and limestone, sinking into the dyspeptic fog of good whiskey that provided him with his own private Dreamland...
...discount window," but the price is high in terms of idle reserves. The fact that some big commercial banks offer many of the other services at a modest fee is encouraging smaller banks to forgo access to the discount window and leave the system. When Chicago's Oak Park Trust & Savings Bank withdrew its $9 million reserves from the system last May, its earnings rose...