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...Boston, hundreds of artists and performers labored to prepare free, outdoor art shows and concerts for a New Year's Eve celebration. Like a scene from a 19th century print, Bostonians by the tens of thousands will wend their candlelit way past sculpture and singers, gathering on the Common for fireworks and communal cheer. In Beverly Hills, Calif, 2,000 people had been expected at a modest tree-lighting ceremony; 15,000 showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United...
From time immemorial-or at least since the first U.S. census was taken in 1790-the head of household has been identified for every house, hovel, plantation, apartment, coop, condominium, igloo and wigwam to which an intrepid census taker could wend...
Overall, the package seemed well designed to wend its way past the broadest political hazards. It appeases some conservatives by letting oil and gas prices rise?but does not offend liberals by removing controls completely or allowing the producers to reap higher profits. It encourages coal production and conversion, as well as a speedier expansion of nuclear power plants, without lifting environmental safeguards...
McCurdy felt both Fitzgibbons and Campbell "didn't run as well as they might have the second mile because they were unfamiliar with the rough terrain," as the harriers had to wend their way through the rock outcroppings that littered the course...
...President's hesitation may have derived from the sheer bulk of the information concerning Rockefeller's private business dealings rather than from any specific sense of wrongdoing. Last week the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Rules Committee began to wend their way through 2,300 pages of FBI reports on Rockefeller's past. At the same time, Rockefeller released details of $507,656 in loans that he has made over the past 17 years to friends, associates and members of his family-all in addition to the $2 million in previously disclosed gifts...