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...herons, egrets, storks, ibis and spoonbills, has dropped from 1,500,000 in the '30s to perhaps 35,000 now. Alligators and other reptiles have probably suffered a similar decline. "It's a long-term thing," says a ranger. "Over the past years, it's just gotten awful still out there...
...because she could never get off of her one note. But Grace has a much stronger voice and there is something to work with. We compete and keep each other on our toes. Sometimes I'll sing one of her notes and fight her for it. I've gotten a lot better because...
Harvard's work-study student employment program has gotten less than two-thirds of the money it requested from the U.S. Office of Education...
That still doesn't mean a program like the Bedford-Stuyvesant one could be organized anywhere else. No other city has New York's wealth, and it has been the Kennedy name, as much as anything, that has gotten the big money involved in the risky business of anti-poverty. Whether a less prestigious politician in a less affluent city could bring businessmen, bureaucrats, and poor people together for any length of time is doubtful. Concedes one Kennedy aide, "It's not going to be the sort of thing that will produce a handbook that anyone can follow...
McCandlish had gotten to within one out of ending a three-hit game, when two singles and a double brought about his downfall in the ninth. Penn had tied the score at 4-all before Bob Lincoin came in to put out the fire and the game went into extra innings...