Word: groves
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Genevieve McCoach Willow Grove...
Intel President Andrew Grove predicts that his and other semiconductor firms can defeat the Japanese challenge. Says he: "Our industry is in a critical stage of development, with our market under attack. We are now fighting a vicious assault; but so far as I am concerned, we will succeed...
...Pine Grove...
...antihandgun sentiment in Morton Grove was latent until an entrepreneur announced last spring that he was opening a gun shop in town. That prospect galvanized the trustees. "I'm just against guns," says Sneider. "It's a deep conviction of mine." Says fellow Village Trustee Neil Cashman, who wrote the law against possession: "I was sick and tired of reading about handgun deaths." Three years ago, a pair of local teenage girls were murdered in a Morton Grove woods, both shot to death with a handgun...
...Morton Grove goes, so goes Illinois? Not exactly. Even as the village was joining the U.S. gun control vanguard, the state legislature enacted a law permitting private ownership of machine guns. Governor James Thompson signed the bill, but soon realized it was "an error," and won an amendment again outlawing machine guns. That farcical episode in the state capitol will surely be eclipsed by the enduring legislative example set in Morton Grove's village meeting room. In fact, Morton Grove's stand on handguns may become legend: ABC has paid the town $17,000 for the option...