Word: mines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mandela House these days is home to four mothers and their babies and three mothers-to-be. Residents receive prenatal care, drug counseling, classes in child development, personal finances and career guidance. They also share child care, housecleaning and cooking. "Mine is reality treatment," says Thomas. "I'm trying to put some order in their lives." Women are referred to Mandela House from jail, court and county protective services. The program is funded by the county, a private grant and donations...
...warehouses. Though a 1987 federal case against Beebe ended in a mistrial, the Government has contended that he was one of his own biggest customers, using the network of banks and thrifts to finance ventures in which he held hidden interests. "He saw the thrifts as one big gold mine, an endless pit of money," says Joseph Cage, a U.S. Attorney in Louisiana who prosecuted Beebe. Rather than exert his ownership outright, Beebe often held control behind the scenes. One of his tactics was to stake friends like the high-flying financier Don Dixon, who relied on Beebe's backing...
...point, annoyed teammates actually waved him out of the pivot. "I wasn't just window dressing," he says, "but I was headed that way. Your mind is what makes everything else work. Mine was on other years. But I think I've turned it up a notch in the past few games...
...challenge to them: if you think it is false, go out and do what I did. Go beyond the cocoon of your apartment and taxicab and take a look. Take notes. Then let's compare notes. I'll bet your picture of New York is not very different from mine...
...what's the scoop? Is mine a case of being a liberal sheep in a wolfish conservative's clothing, of being a hypocrite? Or is a Harvard liberal education claiming the mind of yet another previously close-minded conservative...