Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transport spurred the development of business in both Hawaii and Alaska and helped to open them to statehood. It also fueled the growth of Puerto Rico and made it a leading business center of the Caribbean...
...term, Reagan will spend 28 days at his beloved Rancho del Cielo near Santa Barbara, Calif., chopping wood and riding his horse Little Man.* He spent the flight west last Thursday cleaning out his briefcase and has firmly told his aides, who had proposed presidential visits to Alaska and Hawaii, that he has earned an uninterrupted vacation. Only a doctor and a military aide are at the ranch with Reagan. Chief of Staff James Baker will spend time alone fishing in Texas and Assistant Michael Deaver will retreat to the New England coast. Only Counsellor Edwin Meese will remain...
...before the Sadat dinner, some problems arise. The air-traffic controllers' strike bids to keep a few guests away: Actor Omar Sharif, who would contribute to an Egyptian "ethos," has decided not to fly in from London, and Senator Ted Stevens is staying put in Alaska. There is some question about the roses, which are to arrive by air from New York. But the yellow, white and salmon hybrids make it. Down in the basement, the White House floral director, Dottie Temple, supervises the arrangement of 768 roses in table settings...
...woman has ever been elected president of a state bar. On June 20, 1981, the Rhode Island State Bar Association named Beverly Glenn Long as president. She is the fourth woman to hold such a position. In 1977-78, Carole Kamin Bellows was president of the Illinois State Bar. Alaska has had Donna Willard, while Karen L. Hunt is currently occupying the office...
...other directors of Multiponics, a New Orleans agribusiness venture, had misled investors about the finances of the firm. With that, Goldwater swung into action, ordering an investigation of Casey's fitness for his job. Even before the probe began, Goldwater and two other Republican Senators, Ted Stevens of Alaska and William Roth of Delaware, called on Casey to quit...