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Lawyer Carolyn Agger Dies; Widow of Justice Abe Fortas
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Carolyn Eugenia Agger, 87, a noted tax lawyer who retired two
years ago as a senior partner in the law firm of Arnold & Porter,
died of pneumonia Nov. 7 at her home in Washington. She was the
widow of former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas.
Ms. Agger headed the tax practice group at Arnold & Porter,
one of Washington's most prestigious law firms, for about 20 years.
She was a tiny dynamo of a woman who smoked cigars, championed
rights for women and worked long hours well into her 70s. Her
clients included the Blaustein family, which has oil and other
business interests, and the ...
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Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America.(Review)
Magazine article from: The American Indian Quarterly
; ...proof that ancient farming involving goosefoot, marshelder, maygrass, little barley...marshelder), Chenopodium berlandieri (goosefoot), and Cucurbita pepo (native gourd...indicated by David and Nancy Asch) and goosefoot. Readers can only conclude that the...
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Terminal Archaic and Early Woodland plant use at the Gast Spring site (13LA152), southeast Iowa
Magazine article from: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA
; ...barley (Hordeum pusil/um), and a domesticated variety of goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri). The little barley, AMS-dated...Archaic peoples in the region probably also used wild-type goosefoot and giant ragweed (Asch and Sidell 1992; King 1982). Early...
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Kew experts in hunt for rarest plants
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...tasteless water- pepper, confused fescue, nettle-leaved goosefoot and the ghost orchid. Britain has a total of 1,442 trees...tasteless water-pepper, confused fescue, nettle-leaved goosefoot, ghost orchid, yellow star of Bethlehem, red helleborine...
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Keen to grow quinoa? Start early; keep it cool.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...pounds per acre with certain varieties. The Chenopodium, or goosefoot, family includes many plants that are commonly thought of as weeds, including lamb-quarters, pigweed and narrow leaf goosefoot. Quinoa is in the same family as beets and spinach, and...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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ELEPHANT TRUNK DESERVES NAME.(Stars)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ...year-old Indian village at Fort Drum. Chenopodium is in the goosefoot family, along with beets, spinach and lamb's-quarters. The ancient grain quinoa is also in the goosefoot family. It comes from the Andes, and is still grown there...
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 "Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England)")
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Councilwatch - Monday 22/01/07.
Newspaper article from: Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England)
; ...be converted into a home and offices if plans submitted to South Ribble Council are approved. The owners of Goosefoot Farm in Goosefoot Lane, have applied to convert an egg depot building. The application will now be considered by the council...
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Edgewater Park: A Late Archaic Campsite along the Iowa River
Magazine article from: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA
; ...domesticates-sumpweed, pepo squash/ gourd, sunflower, and goosefoot-that first appear in the archaeobotanical record of the...cultivated crops utilized in the Late Archaic include squash, goosefoot, and little barley (Dunne and Green 1998). While bottle...
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Hero or villain? They make the call
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...wants to fly his own flag'?" "Everybody" is a singular pronoun in reference to "every person." So it should be "his flag." Or "her flag." Or "his or her flag." The plural of "goosefoot" is "goosefoots," by the way.
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A rare plant returns to San Francisco Bay.(Suaeda californica)
Magazine article from: Endangered Species Bulletin
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Suaeda californica, or California sea-blite, is a rare perennial subshrub in the goosefoot family. The Fish and Wildlife Service listed this plant as an endangered species in 1994. The species historically grew along...
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From hunters & gatherers to settlers and traders.
Magazine article from: Cobblestone
; ...C., these ancestors of modern American Indian tribes had begun to cultivate and domesticate plants such as sunflowers, goosefoot, knotweed, maygrass, barley, and marsh elder. The inedible bottle gourd was grown to make into containers, dippers...
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