Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Alabama in Huntsville, physicists last month placed a chip of a green, brittle compound inside a thermos-like container, doused it with frigid liquid nitrogen and sent an electric current through it. As the temperature dropped, they took careful measurements of the compound's electrical resistance -- its opposition to the passage of current...
...KLUX Klan took a knockout punch from an Alabama jury last week. An all-white Alabama jury...
...this week the all-white Alabama jury did something no jury before them had ever done. It help the United Klans of America, the KKK faction to which the killers of Michael Donald belonged, financially liable for the actions of its members. Spokesmen for the UKA are unsure whether the group will appeal. If it doesn't, it will have to come up with the $7 million awarded by the jury...
...review the hundreds of electronic intercepts, CIA files and covert-operation reports that may bear on the widening arms-for-hostages scandal. But one committee member wryly suggests that the extensive security precautions may be the best guarantee that information will get out. If Washington runs on leaks, says Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin, secrecy fuels the process. "You have to build all these top-secret, eyes-only bubbles in order that there can be leakin'," Heflin insists. "That's what it comes down...
...established by Washington. The Federal Government pays, on the average, 54% of the costs. In about half of the states, families in which both a mother and a father are present can receive benefits, but in the other half only single-parent households qualify. Benefit levels vary widely: in Alabama, for example, a family of three gets about $4,000 a year in AFDC and food-stamp benefits; in Alaska such a family gets about $11,500. Some state officials feel that the system must be reformed on a nationwide basis so that recipients do not have an incentive...