Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer the same ranchers complain endlessly to Madison that "his elk" are grazing on their cattle pastures. In winter they blame him when hungry elk and deer are busting their fences and devouring their haystacks. "It's not that folks don't like Jeff personally," says Herb Hughley, who operates the Valley Motel on Highway 13, which runs through Meeker. "But they don't like bureaucrats in Denver making laws about what they can and cannot do here...
...spite of its negatives. The pay-$26,000 a year-is not all that much, but it's enough to get by and he has just bought Nancy a microwave oven. This year he built a deck on the back of their home where they enjoy cool summer evenings. Besides, the alternatives seem unacceptable. Madison hates cities, and traffic makes him irritable. "I love the freedom," he says. "I think I've got the best job there...
Even so, he has not proved to be a politically divisive figure in the presidential campaign, as many Democrats feared and Republicans hoped last summer. Jackson, however, has been careful to avoid provocative gestures. In June he disavowed Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan's various venomous remarks, and Jackson has not appeared with his former ardent supporter since last spring. Farrakhan still delivers his disturbing messages at meetings and on the radio, but most now sink into well-deserved obscurity. In addition, Jackson offered a moving apology in his Democratic Convention speech to those, including Jews, whom...
...three major networks refused to show the Today commercials, the ads will be running on 34 stations, some of them network affiliates, in 14 cities by next week. VLI decided to try local TV advertising after receiving mostly favorable reactions to a series of radio ads it started last summer. The company says that product inquiries have doubled since the advertising campaigns began...
While still a student at Wellesley, where she claimed to have majored in gracious living, Martin got her first job on the Washington Post. "It was an accident," she says. "My parents wanted me to find a summer job, and I thought the Post would be a safe place to apply, thinking they would never hire me since I had no experience. They hired me as a copy girl-monotonous work with terrible hours and featuring a take-home pay of $27.50 a week and the opportunity to get screamed...