Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...form of strep bacteria usually found in newborns and pregnant women is pushing further into the general population; in Atlanta, for example, the incidence of so-called Group B strep has doubled in six years. It usually strikes people already suffering from other illnesses, and it can be deadly...
...heart of the scandal stands the outfit that financed a large portion of it: the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which extended $5.5 billion in loans to finance Saddam's military procurement network in the U.S. Critics charge that the Bush Administration, which was eager to support Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, and was even more eager to assure itself access to oil at cheap prices, turned a blind eye to BNL's activities and allowed missile and nuclear technology that helped Iraq's missile and nuclear development to slip out of the country...
While Gasior's testimony in August 1991 received wide media coverage, there still was little follow-up. She was, however, invited to testify before an Atlanta grand jury. From Gasior's point of view, her second experience with the Justice Department was a disaster. She insists that the prosecutor was aggressively hostile and refused to listen to her story. Soon after her appearance, the U.S. Attorney's office in Atlanta sent a letter to Kennametal stating that the grand jury found the company blameless...
...stop people from talking to me about Ike Turner." The book had a greater impact than she suspected. "People have said, 'You've inspired me. I've cleaned up my life.' Some dance-hall girls have gone back and become nurses. A man came up to me in the Atlanta airport and said, 'I want to tell you that I read your book, and I will never beat my wife again.' " But reliving the Ike years, even from the bright side, was an ordeal to this soul survivor. "And now when the noise from the book calms down," she says...
Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, Margaret Carlson, Michael Duffy, Ted Gup, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Adam Zagorin New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Sally B. Donnelly, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson...