Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sign in stately Old English letters has been hung up on the worn red brick building, the leaky roof has been repaired, and the staff has thumbed gingerly through crumbling back issues, gathering fragments of history to print again. The Adair County Free Press of Greenfield, Iowa, is just about ready for its 100th birthday next week. Same newspaper, same family of editors, no sellout to a chain, no fortunes made or lost, circulation steady at 3,200 in a county of 9,500 and a town of 2,200. The back issues form a tapestry of small events...
Although most Governors agreed that more federal spending on schools is not the answer to their problems, they did ask that Bush help them hack through the thicket of regulations that accompany existing federal education grants. Bush agreed, in the words of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, to "swap red tape for results" in disbursing federal money. Those funds now come encumbered by rules that, for example, prevent night classes of adults from using computers bought for day classes of handicapped students...
...This prize may open more people's eyes to look at their own quality," said the Buddhist leader, who wore sandals and traditional red-and-orange robes...
...inviting 10 or more people to my house for dinner, would you recommend a dry red wine with a grilled fish Marsailles...
...this year," the Oakland fan said. "Last year, we were the best team in baseball. Jose Canseco was more than the MVP. He was the king, czar, whatever. Dennis Eckersley could have put out those Yellowstone fires by himself. We just huffed and puffed and blew the Red Sox out of the playoffs...