Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afro-Americans are not registered (compared to 34 percent of voting-age whites) and in the South (whose electoral votes will be crucial in 1984) the situation is worse still. Voter apathy among Blacks is tantamount to political suicide in today's neo-conservative era, as seen in Alabama in 1980 where Reagan won by a mere 17,462 votes while some 272,390 Black folks could not vote because they were unregistered...
...presidential nomination, Bobby emerged as one of the most exuberant and outgoing of the "cousins," as the conglomeration of Kennedy children is dubbed. His life, at least on paper, glittered: Harvard (class of '76), a stint at the London School of Economics, author of a 1978 book on Alabama Judge Frank Johnson. In 1982, in quick succession, he was married, graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, and started work as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Roone Arledge, 52, aggressive, innovative president of ABC News and Sports; and Ann Arledge, 35, former Miss Alabama; in New York City...
...Congress Watch report showed that the travel is not only » frequent, but also often extravagant. For example, costly military transport planes are used | when commercial airline service would be cheaper and just as convenient. Congressman Ronnie 3 Hippo, an Alabama Democrat, last year led a nine-member delegation to Vienna to attend a U.N. conference. The flight costs came to $74,392 using military aircraft, almost three times the tab to fly business class in commercial planes, according to the report. These bills are paid out of funds-$26.3 million this year-that Congress appropriates to the Air Force...
...using $ 12 million it got from private industry to bolster its growing engineering program. Indeed, state schools are also trying to earn a buck just about any way they can. Wisconsin hopes to cash in on the 325 acres it owns in downtown Madison, and the University of Alabama has been developing coal deposits on land that the state received from the Federal Government after the Civil War to compensate for battle damage to the Tuscaloosa campus...