Word: snow
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Other relatively simple steps the University can take to improve the lives of its disabled students include establishing an effective snow clearance policy and increasing the number of curb cuts on the sidewalks...
Farther to the north and east, rain and gentle spring snow was falling over parts of Finland and Sweden. From there, as well as from points south and west, from Norway and Denmark, came the same disquieting signals. Somewhere, some mysterious source was spewing dangerous radiation into the atmosphere, into the air that people and plants were breathing. By now thoroughly frightened, the Swedes quickly confirmed that the source was not in their country. They immediately turned their suspicions southward, to their powerful neighbor, the Soviet Union...
...foaming head to the 205-year-old "real Derby" at Epsom Downs next month. Broad Brush, an affable bay who likes to be taken on joyrides in his trainer's van, came third. All around, it was a happy day for practically everyone but the 1-2 favorites Snow Chief and Badger Land, who finished eleventh and fifth. By the Dosage Index, a perplexing pedigree calibrator much under discussion these days, Snow Chief's fate had been foretold. But the betting public ignored the arithmetic and forgot the old man. Sentimentalists collected $37.40 for $2 on Willie...
...impetus has come largely from the Democrats, who control all the Southern state legislatures and thus have the power to set primary dates. They have long felt that the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary in February give the Snow Belt an inordinate voice in picking the party's nominee. A Southern primary, they hope, will amplify their region's voice and enhance prospects that the Democrats will nominate a centrist, someone who can win back significant Southern real estate and thereby shatter what has become the modern G.O.P. base of presidential politics: most of the old Confederacy as well...
...their newly-found freedom. There is also the acting of stars Jackson and Kingsley which gives the film whatever focus it does possess. Along with their supporting cast, they spice up the movie with their oddball humor. When asked if he thought he had been a good father, Snow replies, "My daughters thought so, but they were only children at the time...