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Feeding the Fish...
Mainly, you fish...
...attempt to save the fish, the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed to have it added to the endangered and threatened species list. If the effort succeeds -- the process might take a year -- the Federal Government could order a costly diversion of water into the river to create currents strong enough to push the young fish along their way to sea. That could also lead to a one-third jump in regional utility rates and trigger another battle like the one over the spotted owl, pitting environmentalists against those concerned about the economy. "Salmon are at the center of the Northwest...
...December on federal charges that he used funds from his Vernon Savings & Loan $2 million to pay for a California beach house and $10,000 for prostitutes for board members. Though Vernon's former chairman, Woody Lemons, had been sentenced to 30 years, U.S. district court Judge A. Joe Fish gave Dixon only five years, pointing out that the jury had not found him responsible for Vernon's $1.3 billion failure. Dixon could be paroled after serving only 20 months in a minimum-security prison within commuting distance of his home...
...loss. In an era when less talented ballplayers pull down equally towering salaries and occasionally indulge in public temper tantrums, Jackson's grace and zeal on the playing field brought fans out in admiring droves. "When I'm playing, I'm relaxed," Jackson once said. "I'm like a fish in water." Fellow Royals star George Brett noted that fans fell out of the hot dog lines and hurried back to their seats when Jackson stepped to the plate. They were frequently gratified. In July 1988, he hit a blast off Boston's Oil Can Boyd that many said...