Word: tars
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Sabotage! They paved the road while we were gone! I saw the telltale slick black strips of tar at the margins...
Years ago the man who owned the farm before us stood in the middle of the road, we're told, and turned back the tar trucks - ordered them to go somewhere else...
...where my farm lies, the roads department is every bit as good as the British colonials'. It's a complex competition - the wild against the paved. The animals - coyotes, deer, foxes, beavers, fishers, bear, even a couple of mountain lions - are for the moment flourishing. But the tar trucks are prospering, too, fattening on real estate taxes, and they look as if they have their Darwinian agenda in order. I do not have any illusions about which species is going to win this...
...people, he would tell young Terry. Jack, who earned a living in real estate, was the original networker, using his patronage and wide contacts to find jobs for people. Mother Millie pressed the work ethic with Terry, who by 14 had started his first company, sealing driveways with tar. He made his first $1 million 11 years later by investing those profits. Along the way, he graduated from Catholic University in Washington and in 1979 got his first job in politics working to re-elect President Carter. When the campaign's Florida finance chair, Richard Swann, asked Washington for help...
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