Word: silver
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...Trerotola, whom D'Arco links to Carey, was one of the country's most powerful Teamsters before he quit in dis grace. He was also a chairman of the Irish American Teamsters, whose letterhead listed Carey as a "committee member." In 1986 the group celebrated its silver anniversary with a dinner dance honoring union boss Jackie Presser as its "man of the year." Presser subsequently died before he could be tried on embezzlement charges. Carey, through a spokesman, remarkably insists he has "never been on any committee of Irish Teamsters...
...mining industry sees nothing outlandish in the risk Crown Butte proposes to take with the nation's oldest national park, and nothing funny about the claiming of ski runs by environmental jokers. Hard-rock mining (for gold, copper, silver and other metals) once ruled the Rocky Mountain states. The industry is foreign-dominated now (18 of the 25 largest gold mines in the country are owned by non-U.S. firms, most of them Canadian). Only one Western job in 1,000 is directly tied to metal mining. But mining interests have not lost the knack of command, nor have...
What is it in this man, in his urgent voice and eager eyes, in the message and the messenger, that overwhelms even those who are predisposed to distrust him? Long ago, Billy Graham gave up the shiny suits and technicolor ties of the brash young evangelist; the silver mane is thinner now, the step may falter a bit, he no longer prowls the stage like a lynx. In his preaching as well, the temperatures of hellfire have been reduced, the volume turned down. Graham knows he needs to save his strength: he is fighting Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous...
...Chem 10 lecture, you may have seen her calmly taking notes. But on the silver screen, you saw her writhing in feigned agony in her bedroom...
NAFTA was a silver bullet all right, but it was heading straight toward Bush...