Word: alaska
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What frustrates him most, he says, is that in 1 min. 45 sec. it is difficult with a complex matter to "build a case for the point you make." Once when Rather gave him five minutes to talk about an Alaska pipeline bill, Moyers concluded: "On this bill, the two-party system was not up for grabs. It was up for sale." Strong stuff. Delighted, Ralph Nader's reformers sent every Congressman a copy. But listen to the CBS code of standards: The analyst's "function is to help the listener to understand, to weigh, and to judge...
...program (from which Jews were excluded) at three universities Furthermore, according to Soviet law people who taught anything privately required no license whatsoever. But this research failed to impress the K.G.B. Began was arrested, tried, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in Magadan, a Siberian town not far from Alaska. Now, twelve years after he applied to emigrate, he lives in a small town near Moscow and earns his living shovelling coal, a skill be acquired in Magadan...
Only a few months ago, Alaska's $1.5 billion fishing industry expected a good year. The state department of fish and game has been predicting a record catch of up to 135 million salmon. Now the outlook has been shattered. A recall of more than 50 million cans of Alaska salmon is under way. Says Lieutenant Governor Terry Miller: "The situation is very grave. The industry is in serious trouble...
...Food and Drug Administration recall followed the death on Feb. 6 of Eric Malthay of Brussels. Malthay, 27, contracted botulism, a lethal form of food poisoning, after eating a 7¾-oz. can of Alaska salmon. Concern intensified in the U.S. after a 68-year-old Hartford, Conn., woman was hospitalized in critical condition on March 31. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said last week that botulism was probably not the cause of the illness, but the hospital insisted that...
...inspectors believe the toxin that killed Malthay entered the container through tiny holes accidentally punched by can-forming equipment made by American Can Co. The firm is working to correct the defect. Says Eric Eckholm, executive director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute: "We must get the American public to understand that this was a problem with the can and not the product. The failure was with the mechanical process." Meanwhile, Miller has proposed a $5 million campaign to stress the safety of eating Alaska salmon...