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Downstate, the campaign is an uncertain face-off between Bush's stress on social issues and Dukakis' appeal to economic discontent. Illinois Democratic Director Stephen Murphy asserts that industrial cities such as Decatur, Rockford and Peoria "are the holes in the Swiss cheese. Those cities never recovered from the 1982 recession." Gregory Baise, state secretary of transportation and a liaison between Republican Governor James Thompson and the Bush staff, concedes that among Illinois farmers, already hostile to the Administration, "there's an added kicker, the drought, and we just don't know how that will work...
...South Dakotan said he designed the provision to help small ethanol makers, but it could represent a substantial benefit for the the Archer Daniels Midland Co., the large Decatur, Illinois corn processing company that makes the lion's share of U.S. ethanol...
...first project of its kind in the state, according to its inventor, Ron Brown, the associate director of publicity at the Cambridge Public Library. Although other commuter libraries exist in Toronto and Decatur, Georgia, this is the only one that relies purely on trust...
...eight consecutive Eastern Seaboard titles snapped last year, the Harvard men's swimming team will try to regain its dominance in the Ivies in 1987-'88. To help, the aquamen pulled in seven freshmen: Dainel Hume of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Thomas Killion of Fairfield, Conn.; Johnathan Manson of Decatur, Ga.; Gregory Tull of Phoenixville, Penn.; Paul Watson of Armonu, Penn.; Albert Wolf of Bethel Park, Penn.; and Jose Zumpano of Miami...
March 22, 1975. A worker using a lighted candle to check for air leaks at Browns Ferry reactor near Decatur, Ala., touched off a fire that damaged electrical cables connected to safety systems and allowed the reactor's cooling water to drop to dangerous levels. No radioactive material escaped into the atmosphere...