Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press package Udall's staff put together and distributes to reporters who board the Udall press van for the first time is thick with mimeographed position papers. In addition to his biography and favorable press clippings, there is a collection of 31 legal-sized single-spaced pages titled "Congressman Morris K. Udall Addresses the Issues." There are also five "Regional Papers" specifically addressed to New England: "New England's Energy Problem," "New England Consumers," and so on. Finally, there is the blizzard of press releases Udall has sent out in the past few weeks--on Roxbury's developmental problems...
...more the coal industry investigated the Western reserves, the more it liked what it found. Some of the coal lies in gigantic, 100-ft.-thick seams close to the surface. All a coal company must do is strip off the topsoil and gouge up the mineral. Mining cost per ton: a mere $3. Even after transportation costs to the East are figured in, the coal can compete in price with that of Appalachia...
Felix does not make shoes anymore. He quit about 12 years ago because he was losing money. As he spoke, he wistfully fingered the thick cowhide he once used to make soles, and conceded that factories can now cut 20 such soles in a few minutes, whereas the same process takes...
...There's been no tabulation of my votes, and this is supposed to be a democracy," Blessitt said with a thick, Florida swampland accent. "The A.P. and the networks won't tell the people how we're doing. We had a quarter-mile long march in Manchester last week, and 800 people at a rally here in Concord Saturday, and not one news reporter showed up. William Loeb hasn't written one word about us. Just like Concord was blacked out last night [from an electric power failure], we've been blacked out by the media...
...Carter don't represent the entire spectrum of campaign images offered by candidates, but they seem to define right and center choices that, broadly speaking, make up the field. And if their basic approaches remain the same until the convention, Robert Kelleher's slogan sounds awfully appealing. The thick-eyebrowed attorney wants you to "Elect the Last President...