Word: alabama
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...Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will hold primaries; Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Washington will hold caucuses. At stake: 1,003 delegates...
When blacks demanded civil rights in Birmingham during the early '60s, the Alabama city answered with police dogs and fire hoses. A decade later, blacks sued to integrate the same Birmingham police and fire departments that had forcibly put them down. After a drawn-out legal struggle, the city signed a consent decree in 1981, agreeing to hire minorities and women in about the same proportion as workers in the city's private sector: between 33% and 50% for blacks, and 15% and 30% for women. The U.S. Justice Department backed the lawsuit and helped draft the eventual...
Trees from Maine to Alabama are showing a decline in growth...
...decline, confined thus far mostly to the Eastern states, is puzzling scientists from Maine to Alabama. The mysterious selective blight may merely signal shifts in local ecological balances. Or, say the scientists, it may be the start of a trend toward devastation that could eventually engulf the entire Eastern green range. Their worry is not unfounded. An apparently similar malady has ravaged 34% of West Germany's wooded lands, causing an annual $509 million in damages to timber and related industries. So far, the U.S. decline has been measured mostly in aesthetic and recreational losses. But it is beginning...
...locales-Tampa Bay, Michigan, New Jersey, Denver and Philadelphia-are also N.F.L. territories. Three of the largest U.S.F.L. markets-Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles-have been flops. While a 62,300 house was counted the first week of this season in Birmingham, the Stallions might not wish to try Alabama and Auburn head on. Anyway, who would televise the games? Awaiting baseball and good weather, the U.S.F.L. has been achieving unspectacular rating shares, while ticket sales are down...