Word: val
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...through them and like what she perceives. Her four earlier books were heartfelt documentaries about depressed villages and their degraded women; here she addresses the flip side of the country's trials. Her most winning character is, in a sense, the lazy, sunlit hill town of San Felice Val Gufo, whose main industry is gossip and main activity leisure. Its happy-go-lucky air is eminently well suited to the semi-elegant foreign riffraff-lascivious artists, terminal good-for-nothings, dotty Brits, retired CIA agents and indiscriminate snobs-who haunt the area. So blundering and blustering are the idle...
FRANCE. For its size, France has the most ambitious nuclear industry of any nation. It has 32 functioning reactors and is building 27 more. During the heyday of the French nuclear drive under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the late 1970s, construction started on four or five reactors a year...
...camps from Hawaii to New Zealand, karate and pro football have been mixed into the exercises (Green Bay Packer Del Rodgers was a drill instructor). With the exception of three-time Olympian Cindy Nelson, a bronze-medal winner in 1976, they are extraordinarily fit. Nelson crashed a gate at Val d'Isere, France, last month and tore the ligaments in a knee. She returned to the U.S. immediately and has been working furiously to recover...
...Dutchmen didn't look like Harvard, at least in terms of smoothness, confidence and consistency. For the first time, four of the Crimson scored in the double figures. Boutiher, Captain Val Jordan, Erin Sugrue and Wendy Joseph Freshman Gia Barressi showed her scrappiness, as well, helping the Crimson overcome the complacency that has plagued its play all season...
...hoopsters warmed up quickly, though, when Boutilier got the home team going with a swish on a 20-footer 10 minutes into the game. Captain Val Jordan and Anna Collins added to Crimson momentum with a number of brilliant collaborations under the boards...