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...coasts of California and Florida, a 50-mile stretch of the mid-Atlantic and part of New England. Congress has never before urged so sweeping a ban on offshore exploration. The committee also voted for a year's moratorium on oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Bristol Bay, an exceedingly rich fishing area...
...between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea on the North Slope, just east of Prudhoe Bay, may contain some 9 billion bbl. of oil, and they are eager to drill there. President Bush and the U.S. Interior Department favor opening up the area to exploration and development. Unlike Bristol Bay, where powerful fishing interests have always fought drilling, the land adjacent to this preserve is home only to a handful of Inupiat. Alaskan politicians thus have had little to lose and much to gain by pushing for exploration -- even the usually pro-environment Governor Cowper, who favors the plan...
Despite a strong third-game showing, the Harvard men's volleyball team fell to Roger Williams College, 3-1, last night in Bristol...
...policy, which will take effect by July 1, 1989, includes more than 100 companies and corporations, among them Gillette, Bristol-Meyers, Hewlett-Packard and Johnson & Johnson...
Pool-equipment manufacturers are strapped for tables, cues and other paraphernalia to meet the demand. "It really accelerated in 1986 after the release of The Color of Money," says Jim Bakula of the Brunswick Corp. in Bristol, Wis. Watching Paul Newman and Tom Cruise slug it out helped glamourize the game. In the past two years, pool-table sales have more than doubled, with 90% of the sales made to private homes...