Word: california
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Massachusetts now joins California as the only states to prohibit peremptory challenges solely on the basis of race. The United States Supreme Court in the 1965 case of Swain v. Alabama, upheld lawyers' consideration of race in their use of peremptory challenges...
Studying bacteria can improve neurobiologists' understanding of the human mind, Daniel E. Koshland, professor of biochemistry at the University of California, said last night...
...last two sets. Chaikovsky, playing despite a shoulder injury and serving half-speed to avoid aggravating the injury, said afterwards the shoulder had not bothered him too much. The injury may, however, continue to keep him out of singles competition during the team's trip to California this spring...
Cost of the massive project: $750 million, to be shared almost equally by the state and federal governments. But California would buck its bill back to the farmers by charging them $15 per acre-foot of drainage water and $1.30 per acre-foot for incoming irrigation water. That, they fear, would drain them of cash. Says Cerutti: "It would ruin me." Adds Tulare County Farmer Stan Barnes: "It's the unknown, hidden costs that worry...
Environmentalists too are worried about the unknown, particularly about the effect of heavily saline discharges into inland California waters. Recently, they forced a 15-mile rerouting of the proposed viaduct at an extra cost of $60 million. Says the Sierra Club's Peter Zars: "Our primary concern has been the amount of residual fertilizers and pesticides that would be discharged." Yet almost everyone agrees something must be done to save the San Joaquin. Warns State Conservation Department Director Priscilla Grew: "If we want to have long-term agriculture in the valley, we have to address the problem...