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...river's repugnant color and stench contribute to Cocke County's prolonged economic doldrums by discouraging tourists and development. With an unemployment rate currently averaging 15%, Cocke Countians openly envy the relative prosperity in Haywood County, home of the paper mill (present unemployment average: 6%). Says Cocke County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Robert Seay, co-founder of the Dead Pigeon River Council, which wants to clean up the stink: "It's completely unfair for one county to use the river and have a ((low)) unemployment rate, and 50 miles downstream here we are with one of the highest unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Stink on the Pigeon | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...rights bill isn't expected to be debated by the Senate until after the chamber considers the fiscal 1989 budget, which could put the gay rights debate off until the Legislature returns from its summer break after Labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gay Rights Bill Goes to Senate | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...Byrd warned that it will be "extremely difficult" for a new bill to wend its way through the chamber's complex procedures before its Oct. 8 adjournment. "Anybody who thinks that can be done in the Senate is simply naive," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Vetoes Trade Bill | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

Walsh's proposal calls on the City Manager to create a plan after consulting with various neighborhood groups, institutions, business associations and the Chamber of Commerce...

Author: By Anne F. Palmer, | Title: Walsh Proposes Rezoning City | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...patient who was near death after a heart transplant. Working from an incision in the patient's groin, the surgeon threaded a 7-in. assembly made of a tube connected to a miniature, propeller-like pump through the patient's arteries and into his left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the heart. The stainless-steel pump, driven by a slender cable linked to a motor outside the body, took on the work of the ailing ventricle. Spinning 25,000 times a minute -- about four times as fast as a sports-car engine -- the pump drew a steady stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Helping Out a Heart in Texas | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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