Word: california
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Mixed among the requisite sample of McKinsey alums in dark suits are eager company presidents fresh out of college, a biking tour guide from California and a Navy officer...
...California, the hub of water polo in the United States, provided Harvard with exactly what it has been seeking--fresh faces on the opposing teams and great competition...
...distressing to read of the latest transgressions against the environment and the death of young activist David Chain while he was attempting to save the redwoods in California [ENVIRONMENT, Sept. 28]. The most basic disagreement between the environmental movements and the business community continues to be the rights of landowners and companies to profit from their investments vs. the need to protect and preserve the source of those profits. I consider myself an environmentalist, but until we find a way to make the environment an economic issue, we'll never be able to battle the lure of economic gain derived...
...described the final bill the California legislature approved to authorize the purchase of the 7,500-acre Headwaters Forest from the Pacific Lumber Co. as "the Deal." However, you overlooked a number of significant improvements California made to the Deal, compared with what had been negotiated over the past two years. This legislation requires Pacific Lumber to set aside, for 50 years, an additional 7,000 acres of ancient redwoods that will be off limits to all logging and protected as habitat for the threatened marbled murrelet. The company is also required to set aside an additional 11,000 acres...
Many members pursued careers in the law. Silver-maned Nixon apologist CHARLES WIGGINS of California and Democrat WILLIAM HUNGATE of Missouri became federal-court judges, and Arkansas' RAY THORNTON and Wisconsin's HAROLD FROEHLICH became state-court judges. Wisconsin's ROBERT KASTENMEIER headed a National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal. California's JEROME WALDIE served on the National Labor Relations Board. JOHN SEIBERLING taught law at the University of Akron. "Our results were clearly a bipartisan effort," he says. "I don't detect any of that today." And ROBERT DRINAN of Massachusetts teaches law at Georgetown University...