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...explosive grass-roots campaigns. Consumer activists seem ready to pounce on almost any "target marketing" by tobacco and liquor manufacturers, a reference to advertising that is tailored to appeal to particular groups. Earlier this year, RJR Nabisco canceled plans for two new cigarette brands -- Uptown, aimed at blacks, and Dakota, which targeted uneducated young women -- in the face of heated opposition from consumer-advocacy groups...
...stand with Nancy Reagan on the lawn of her sun-drenched Bel Air home above Beverly Hills and see a sinister tongue of smog lick out and engulf the office where her husband works just three miles below. Or you can walk along the low hills of North Dakota and scuff through the shifting soil that still blows against the stubble in the dry fields. Same message...
Bill Kastner of the U.S. Geological Survey office in Denver monitors the monstrous Ogallala Aquifer, that famous underground sponge that reaches from South Dakota to the high plains of Texas, touches eight states and embraces 174,000 sq. mi. In some places the water level has fallen 200 ft., leaving the balance between use and recharge from rainfall in precarious condition. Given a little hot dry weather and good farm prices that encourage increased grain planting, the irrigation pumps will begin to whir, in all likelihood sucking up more water than will be replaced...
...North Dakota...
First round action involves a best-of-three series between the following pairings: North Dakota (27-11-4) at Boston University (21-14-2), Bowling Green (25-15-2) at Maine (31-9-2), Alaska-Anchorage (17-9-2) at Lake Superior St. (31-8-3) and Clarkson (21-9-3) at Minnesota...