Word: cooke
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...proven oil reserves constitute about a third of the entire known U.S. supply. As the U.S. tries to decrease its dependence upon foreign sources for its energy, the pressure will surely increase to tap more of Alaska's lode of black gold in areas like the Cook Inlet and offshore in the Bering Strait. By 1985, the state could be furnishing 25% of the nation's oil. Alaska also has an estimated 420 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas, a supply worth approximately $420 billion and large enough to handle all U.S. needs for 18 years. Inevitably, more...
Legally, only the poor are eligible for Medicaid, but many others take advantage of the program, adding tens of millions to its costs every year. A recent GAO spot check revealed that 28% of those seeking benefits in New York City and Illinois' Cook County were actually ineligible. In California, young girls who do not wish to tell parents of their pregnancies are claiming poverty to obtain abortions under Medi-Cal, as that state's program is called. In Illinois, almost everyone who applied for admission to the state's $657 million Medicaid program was accepted without...
...attractive to pollution-prone utilities. The bill throws into doubt, at least for the moment, many of the coal companies' plans for expansion. "It is fair to say that this bill was not designed to facilitate the mining of western coal but rather to prevent it," complains Donald Cook, chairman of the nation's second-largest coal user, the American Electric Power...
After studies in Hue and Saigon, Ho worked his way as a cabin boy aboard a ship to Europe. There, supporting himself with odd jobs (pastry cook at London's Carlton Hotel, photo retoucher in Paris), he became enamored of Communism as the means of overthrowing his country's imperialist burden...
...help his image, Rockefeller has also been the guest of honor at a series of dinner parties arranged by Tennessee's Senator Howard Baker and Marlow Cook, a former Senator from Kentucky and now an influential Washington lawyer. The goal of the dinners is to show Senate Republicans-particularly conservative skeptics-that the Vice President is really just a misunderstood victim of his own fame. This week Rockefeller will be the grilled guest at another stag, all-business dinner given by Nebraska's Senator Roman Hruska, one of the G.O.P.'s right-hand anchors...