Word: farther
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same year that a Black American has advanced farther than any other in history, 1988 could also be the year of the closing of the Black Political Mind...
...country and into the cosmos. Their two CBS albums (the recent Tired of the Runnin' has made it to No. 21 on the country charts and spawned a Top 5 single besides) are flawless but far from slick. At their frequent best, the O'Kanes can plunge back farther than Nashville, all the way to the spooky, spiritual mountain music of the Carter Family and the Tenneva Ramblers. "I don't recognize it," admitted a brand-new O'Kanes fan at a recent Rochester concert. "But I like...
Some firms look even farther afield and try to recruit workers outside their region. But often the chief obstacle to attracting new employees is the high cost of housing, so some potential employers have tried to compensate. An auto-parts division of Textron based in Dover, N.H., gives some of its new white-collar employees short-term "bridge" loans for housing at below-market interest rates. Last year the state's average home price was $136,000, nearly 60% higher than the U.S. median...
...quite fun actually." Asked if it might change him, he responded, "It hasn't yet." (At least half an hour had gone by.) In other words, he would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen? "It's not me." As a matter of fact, Edberg describes his fundamental hope as the ability to continue patronizing a particular pizza parlor in anonymity...
...first they are able to communicate easily with controllers on earth. But as they head farther into space, the time required for their radio signals to reach earth lengthens to minutes, and the ever widening gap between questions and answers makes conversation difficult. Now, with the earth more than 100 million miles away, Mars is looming in the spacecraft portholes, and the crew begins preparing for a yearlong adventure on another world...