Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HACKENSACK, N.J.--From a distance, it could just be another of the monstrous structures--oil drums, refineries, and the like--that populate the North Jersey neighborhood. Upon closer inspection, however, it turns out to be about the most impressive monument to the multi-million dollar phenomenon known as professional football ever to be constructed on Route 3 in Hackensack...
NORTHEAST. In New York and Pennsylvania, organizational kinks have been ironed out; in New Jersey, where they lingered longer, Democrats at last appear to be uniting. Carter will probably benefit from the court ruling that ended a recall move against Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo. Freed of his major concern, Rizzo can now rev up his city machine on behalf of Carter-Mondale. But in the big industrial states, the problem appears to be boredom with both campaigns and both candidates. In such states, the larger the turnout, the better for the Democrats...
Passed by a 43-to-25 vote in the California assembly after a bitter fight, the bill gained significant support in the wake of the case of Karen Anne Quinlan, the New Jersey girl who slipped into an apparently irreversible coma. Karen's parents spent six months battling for her right to die with dignity.* Though the California bill specifically disavows "mercy killing" and allows anyone designated by the patient to rescind the death directive, California's pro-life forces strenuously opposed the measure as the first step toward euthanasia. Said one Democratic assemblyman, Vincent Thomas: "The trend...
...Jersey Supreme Court approved the removal of the mechanical respirator from Karen last March. Contrary to prognosis, she remains alive in a rest home, though still in a coma...
Outside the park, a fan stopped at the corner of Jersey St. and Brookline Ave. to buy a hot dog from an old vendor, his dark beard peppered with white hairs...