Word: parked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blair House negotiations are as remarkable in their way as the Camp David summit that preceded them. Jimmy Carter has turned those negotiations into a very personal affair, re-establishing the kind of neighborhood Government that used to exist around Lafayette Park more than a century ago. "We feel it," said one of the participants. "The President is just at arm's length...
...Patients with advanced cases of certain cancers of the skin, bone, lymph system, breast, lung and bladder will receive interferon at Houston's M.D. Anderson; the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, both in Manhattan; Buffalo's Roswell Park Memorial Institute; the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif...
...points out that crime is "as American as Jesse James." Abraham Lincoln called internal violence America's biggest problem well over a century ago; Herbert Hoover anticipated Richard Nixon's law-and-order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...
...make money: "Each acre produces so little profit that all you can do is go for bigger acres and make sure that each acre produces more crop." So, besides buying land, he has purchased so much machinery that it requires a football-field-sized yard just to park it. A partial inventory: four 15-ton trucks, three pickup trucks, seven tractors, three center-pivot irrigators and three wheat combines that cost $30,000 each, yet are used only about two weeks a year...