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CHAPTER XIX

A GENEROUS OFFER

It was late in the afternoon of the next day when Harry and I sat figuring in our shanty, while Johnston lay on a heap of cedar twigs sucking at his pipe and encouraging us languidly.

"I never could stand figures, and that's perhaps why I'm poor," he said. "Go on, you are doing famously, and, though Ralph can't add up correctly to save his life, I'll take your word for it."

He formed a characteristic picture of the free lance as he lay there, bronzed and blonde-bearded, with his massy limbs disposed in an attitude of easy grace, awaiting the result with a careless unconcern until Harry flung a long boot at him as a signal for silence.

"As the surveyor told you, Ralph, we can't well lose money on this last venture, even if we wanted to," said Harry at length. "You'll observe I'm almost getting superstitious. Now, on cashing the order, we can repay your loan, keeping back sufficient to meet emergencies, while with the rest one of us could return to Fairmead and plough every available acre for next spring's sowing. Many things suggest that you are the one to go. Johnston and I with the others could get the timber out during the winter--we have worked in the snow before--and I would join you in the spring. That, however, again raises a point that must be settled once for all. Are we to hold on to our first ambition, or turn contractors?"

1. When were they in the shanty?
2. of what day?
3. and who was doing math?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. in the afternoon
2. of the next day
3. unknown

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Within IOC, Samaranch was a man much admired and sometimes loved, the Spanish who made the organization into one that is rich and so powerful. No one doubted Samaranch's ability to make something impossible come true. In 1981 he ensured that Seoul was elected to be the host of the 1988 Olympics. Remember, that was a time when the two Koreas were at war with each other. And because Samaranch helped swing Spanish votes across to London, rather than to Paris, London was made host for the 2012. To China and the Chinese people, Samaranch was considered a great friend. Thanks to his efforts during his last term as IOC president, Beijing and China won the Olympics for the first time. Samaranch led the IOC from 1980 to 2001. Certainly, throughout his IOC presidential term, he had a soft spot for Moscow, for it was there that he was elected president of the IOC in 1980, and it was there that he managed to reach his final wishes as IOC president. Very early on in that 2001 Moscow session he wanted the Belgian surgeon, Jacques Rogge, a newcomer to the Olympic Movement, to replace him as president, for China to host the 2008 Olympic Games and for his son, Juan Antonio Samaranch junior, to become an IOC member. He got all three wishes. Samaranch's death came three months before his 90th birthday on April 21st, 2010.

1. Who was admired?
2. What was powerful?
3. Who hosted 1988 Olympics?
4. What about the 2012 Olympics?
5. Who considered Samaranch a great pal?
6. How long did Samaranch lead IOC?
7. Where was he selected to be president at?
8. Who is Jacques Rogge?
9. Who hosted Olympics in 2008?
10. When did Samaranch pass away?
11. How old was he when he passed away?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Samaranch
2. the IOC
3. Seoul
4. London
5. China and the Chinese people
6. 21 years from 1980 to 2001
7. Moscow
8. a Belgian surgeon
9. China
10. April 21st, 2010.
11. 89

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The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest political party.

The Democrats' dominant worldview was once social conservatism and economic liberalism, whileespecially in the rural Southpopulism was its leading characteristic. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate in the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party, leading to a switch of political platforms between the Democratic and Republican Party and Woodrow Wilson being elected as the first fiscally progressive Democrat. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice.

Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, with a smaller minority of conservative Democrats. The party's philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy. These interventions, such as the introduction of social programs, support for labor unions, affordable college tuitions, moves toward universal health care and equal opportunity, consumer protection, and environmental protection form the core of the party's economic policy. The party has united with smaller liberal regional parties throughout the country, such as the FarmerLabor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota.

1. When was the Democratic party founded?
2. By whom?
3. What was its name when Thomas Jefferson was involved?
4. What was the name of Franklin D Roosevelt's coalition?
5. What did it support?
6. Promoted by what?
7. When was this?
8. Was Woodrow Wilson a Republican?
9. What was Theodore Roosevelt's party?
10. When did he run?
11. How many other parties were there then
12. What the philosophy of the modern Democratic party?
13. What does it advocate?
14. Name one intervention it wants the government to provide?
15. Name another?
16. And another?
17. And one more?
18. What state has the Farmer-Labor Party?
19. And where is the Nonpartisan League?
20. Have the Democrats united with these smaller parties?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. 1828
2. supporters of Andrew Jackson
3. Democratic-Republican Party
4. New Deal coalition
5. social justice
6. ocial-liberal platform
7. 1930s
8. No
9. third-party candidate in the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party
10. 1912
11. Three
12. modern liberalism
13. social and economic equality
14. introduction of social programs
15. support for labor unions
16. affordable college tuitions
17. moves toward universal health care
18. Minnesota
19. North Dakota.
20. Yes