Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Iowa, Mondale is slugging, Glenn is sagging, and Hart is hanging in First Des Moines and Cedar Rapids in Iowa, then Manchester and Concord in New Hampshire: plain-folks places nearly as thick with TV equipment and visiting reporters as Sarajevo had been the week before. But unlike the Olympics, which had enough surprises to keep things interesting, the quadrennial race for the Democratic presidential nomination was beginning to look like a predictable rout. "We got the gold and silver medals," declared Walter Mondale's polltaker, Peter Hart, after the Iowa caucuses. "Everybody else fought over the bronze...
...does without a strong central character around whom the action can revolve. It offers instead the Ventura family: seven adults and their spouses plus 33 children ranging in age from six to 16. This clan spends every summer at Marulanda, a magnificent, fenced-in estate, with a vast plain outside stretching to the horizon in all directions. Barely visible are the blue mountains beyond, where laborers who are virtual slaves mine the Ventura gold...
Enforcement would be a somewhat controversial and Orwellian issue, but it would add new prestige and purpose to the Harvard Police Force. No more letting people into their rooms, breaking up keg parties, and plain old chatting the day away near the Gulf Station on Mass. Ave--not for Harvard's finest, "The Politeness Police...
...fear of assassination has also been overdrawn. The threat is there, as Reagan knows better than anyone. The idea of dying with his boots on is not something any President talks about publicly. But in private a couple of them have made it plain that it is better to take that chance than wither away idly in a rocking chair...
...carcinogen in food, in practice the Government allows small levels if the cost of eliminating the cancer-causing substance is too high. The difficulty is weighing possible future lives lost against immediate economic cost. Consumers who fear any EDB at all can return to an old but forsaken faithful: plain white bread...