Word: district
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this week a judge in U.S. District Court in Boston found that the world's most famous maker of disposable razors was guilty of printing a misleading ad during a vicious proxy battle last year...
...willing buyers in most states. The doctrine of prior appropriation has in practice meant "use it or lose it." Thus Utah, for example, diverts Colorado River water for which it has little present use. Other obstacles to water marketing are bureaucratic: muscular interests like Southern California's metropolitan water district and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation tend to view water marketing as a threat to their present service monopolies...
...survey of U.S. regional trauma systems that came up with a disturbing diagnosis. Twenty- two years after the National Academy of Sciences declared that trauma was the "neglected disease of modern society," only two states, Maryland and Virginia, have set up acceptable statewide systems. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia either have incomplete coverage or lack essential components; the remaining 29 states have not yet set up formal systems. Says Dr. John West of the University of California at Irvine, an author of the J.A.M.A. report: "If you drive across the U.S. and get into an accident, you have...
...archconservative Anatoli Ivanov, editor of the youth journal Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard). Seasoned Communist politicians have found themselves forced to campaign for delegate seats, most for the first time in their careers. "It was exhausting," said Vladimir Kluyev, who won a place on the delegation from Moscow's Lenin District. "A difficult process...
...Friday in Frankfurt, site of England's consolation game with the Soviet Union, the tireless roughnecks caroused in the city's red-light district, despite 1,400 patrolling policemen. It was an altogether repugnant show. As a bleary-eyed fan wearing a Union Jack T shirt said, "We'll never be in Europe again. Not even our own government will recommend...