Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While on retainer to Madison, the Rose firm had taken on sporadic assignments. Probably the most significant was a 1985 purchase by Madison Financial of a large tract of land destined to become Madison's Castle Grande real estate development. Among other amenities, Castle Grande was going to boast a microbrewery, prompting research by Rose into whether a brewery could operate in a dry township. But a bigger problem was that a regulation of the Arkansas savings and loan board prohibited Madison Financial from buying the entire Castle Grande tract because, as a subsidiary of Madison Guaranty, it could hold...
...strong propensity to believe in any flattering prophecy, even if the prophecy contradicts the more rational side of my mind. On the other hand, the Indian mystic wasn't a total con. This turbaned guru-of-sorts also told me that my only health problems would involve my digestive tract; three weeks later I was hospitalized for paratyphoid fever, also known as intestinal salmonella. So we'll suspend our skepticism for him, even though he tried to hawk his cure for AIDS to my physician mother so she could market it in the United States...
...Economics mixes well with the social sciences tract," Leo Lee says...
...called fat-free fat, which passes through the digestive tract without being absorbed and thus adds no fat and no fat calories to food, can be used only in savory snacks, like potato chips, crackers and tortilla chips. The data, explains FDA Commissioner David Kessler, "demonstrate reasonable certainty of no harm in certain snack foods...
...Rushdie, speaking through the Moor, is not writing an allegory or a political tract about recent Indian history, although elements of both are undeniably present. And when his narrator gets a bit preachy, he quickly cuts himself off: "Enough, enough: away with this soap-box! Unplug this loud-hailer, and be still, my wagging finger!" The true subject of The Moor's Last Sigh is language in all its uninhibited and unpredictable power to go reality one better and rescue humans from the fate of suffering in silence...