Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to speculate how much oil is left and where it is," says Sexton. As much as 25% of the crude may have evaporated in the early days after the spill. Much of the rest, guesses Lars Foyn, a fishery expert with the Marine Research Institute in Bergen, Norway, has become diluted in the water and disappeared. Most of the experts in Alaska privately agree with that dispiriting theory, but no one wants to be the first to say that the remaining oil has seeped irretrievably into the ecosystem...
...pilot tried to abort the takeoff for an unknown reason, said Kathleen Bergen, spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration in New York. The plane had been delayed from a 7:30 p.m. scheduled departure, CBS reported...
...Quest magazine when it formed a Giraffe society to reward the intrepid. When the magazine folded in 1981, Medlock nurtured the neck-stretching idea with a little money from supporters and began persuading radio stations to air a short account of Giraffes' achievements, recorded by personalities such as Candice Bergen and John Denver. Today the exploits are regularly broadcast by more than 500 stations...
Danbury is followed by other New York exurbs: central New Jersey's Middlesex, Hunterdon and Somerset counties; Norwalk, Conn.; and Long Island. Then come San Francisco; Nashua, N.H.; Los Angeles-Long Beach; Orange County, Calif.; Boston; and Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey. At the bottom of the list: Jackson, Mich., and Atlantic City...
...probably appeal the verdict, citing the First Amendment. But even if overturned, the verdict will heat up a simmering debate over whether a reporter's promise of anonymity is absolute. "My responsibility is to readers," argues David Hall, editor then of the Pioneer Press & Dispatch and now of the Bergen (N.J.) Record, in defense of his decision. But critics point out that Hall could have kept the bargain with Cohen by simply attributing the information to a "Whitney supporter." "This is a very simple case," says Hennepin County Chief Public Defender William Kennedy, a Democrat. "A promise is a promise...