Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conspicuously absent at a historic visit on Kerry's behalf by President Clinton in neighboring Fall River on Saturday...
...September, Democratic city officials from Springfield, Chicopee, Fall River, Haverhill and Revere all endorsed Weld...
...almost 100,000 POWs were exchanged. But of the 10,218 Americans captured, only 3,746 were returned. The newly opened documents make public what President Eisenhower learned shortly after hostilities ended: up to 1,000 U.S. servicemen remained in communist hands. "The prisoners were sold down the river," Corso says. "We abandoned them." Documents turned up by Pentagon investigators and released by the subcommittee reveal an Administration in anguish. A memo dated Dec. 22, 1953, reports a conversation between Eisenhower and Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens concerning more than 900 U.S. prisoners who should have been returned...
Like Sutter's Mill, which in 1848 bestrode a gold-laden California stream, Fidelity has for years flushed a rising river of investment through its machine, enriching both customers and company. One out of every 50 households in America owns shares in Magellan, which has grown to a staggering $50.97 billion. Fidelity invests more money for the employee savings-and-retirement plans known as 401(k)s than any other institution: $111.4 billion...
When Buchwald established himself as the great humorist-tour guide of the old New York Herald Tribune, he wrote a parody of Hemingway's novel Across the River and into the Trees, and Hemingway, in a letter to a friend, called Buchwald "a smart-assed son of a bitch...