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Promoters planted the first palm tree here in the 1880s. At the same time, real estate agents were known to pin oranges on Joshua trees, claiming this had been a terrain given over to orange groves since beyond memory. At the beginning of this year, the median sales price for an existing house in greater Los Angeles was $114,200-in the nation, it was $71,800. But who can find a "median" home? The other day, on a quiet street in Santa Monica, a FOR SALE sign went up in front of a three-bedroom, one-bath, fake stucco...
Furthermore, Reagan will try to pin any economic woes on big-spending Democrats and the failed policies of the Carter-Mondale Administration. He has only to quote Gary Hart...
...weeks Walter Mondale had predicted with facetious precision that he would acquire the magic number of 1,967 delegates needed to pin down the Democratic presidential nomination at 11:59 a.m. on the day after Super Tuesday III?the final day of one of the most grueling, frenetic and unpredictable primary seasons ever. Now on election eve Mondale's campaign plane was over California, nearing the end of a 25-hour, 5,620-mile coast-to-coast blitz. The candidate had been in fine fettle, rousing partisan audiences in New Jersey, West Virginia and New Mexico. He seemed somehow...
...There is a chilly atmosphere for junior faculty, which is hard to pin down," says an assistant professor. Subtle things like "who is called by a first name by the secretaries" create this atmosphere, she adds...
Three years and several epic battles later, most people involved agree that the two have had considerable influence on each other's work and on Harvard drama in general--though, to be sure, neither Rauch nor Warner nor anyone else can pin-point just what that influence has been...