Word: fighting
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Most new towns are built in rural counties whose officials are not used to handling the decisions and red tape that go along with setting up a town for hundreds of thousands of people. Developers must almost always fight for zoning changes. Counties sometimes cannot build schools fast enough to accommodate the influx of people. There are always disputes about who should pay for access roads to the new city. For example, a four-lane highway runs through Reston linking Dulles Airport and Washington. But no one can get on or off at Reston. The Federal government insists that...
During the past six months the Federal Bureau of Investigation has come under fire for its use of electronic devices--telephone wiretaps and hidden "bugs"--to gather evidence to fight crime and protect the national security. Last summer the Supreme Court nullified a tax evasion conviction on the grounds that evidence used was obtained illegally. Throughout the summer and early fall, there were strident cries for statutory limitations on such activities--with particular reference to those carried out by the F.B.I. And last weekend, F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover and his former boss, ex-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, accused...
...Baker won't have Doug Hardin to help him out in the distance races, and he could get a fight from the Terriers' Pete Hoss and George Starkus. Tim McDoone will replace the injured two miler...
...specializing in sea food are understandably alarmed. Snaps Edmund Lillys, owner of Manhattan's Gloucester House: "We are upset to see something disturbed that has been around 1,966 years, or something like that."* In the face of the threat, fish producers, canners and distributors have begun to fight back. Except for such giants as the Ralston Purina Co. (Chicken of the Sea and White Star canned tuna) and HJ. Heinz Co. (Star Kist), the industry has been listless in promoting fish, slow in keeping up with innovations in packaging and convenience foods. Warns New York Fishery Council Director...
Leading the fight will be scrappy sophomore goalie Bill Diercks. "I want to see what he can do against tough opposition," says Coach Cooney Weiland. He has such faith in the kid he will start Diercks ahead of veteran Bill Fitzsimmons in both games...