Word: kenneth
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...leading lady in the fight against pesticides, was quickly booked solid on talk shows and Capitol Hill. Soon apples were ordered removed from school cafeterias in New York City, then Los Angeles and Chicago. Said one school official: "It was overreaction and silliness carried to the point of stupidity." Kenneth W. Kizer, director of the California department of health services, said the panic was creating a "toxic bogeyman." Still, a number of school systems across the country followed suit. Signs were posted above produce bins coast to coast pointing out the Alar-free apples. Makers of products like apple juice...
...most of us in the U.S., secret police and high-speed car chases are just the stuff of movies. But not to TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth Banta. They're sometimes a real part of the job of covering a bloc of nations not always known for their hospitality to the press. During one trip to Prague to attend a dissident conference, Banta and his translator were met at their hotel by a pair of dark sedans filled with secret police eager to dissuade the reporters from venturing out. Undaunted, Banta's translator gunned his small Czech-made...
Smokestack chasing, as the practice of wooing factories has become known, is rampant in small-town America. Although often portrayed as a response to problems in the farming sector, in many cases the search is an effort to replace the industrial jobs lost in the 1980s, says Kenneth Deavers, a chief economist for the Agriculture Department. Farming and related businesses account for only about one-eighth of rural employment. Attracting new industries to a small town can be tricky. "A lot of these firms are gypsies. They fly from one set of subsidies to another," notes Mark Lapping, dean...
...Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89, who supported the election changes, said, "The overwhelming sentiment among people who voted 'no' was that they were pleased with the direction of the council and were satisfied with the choices council representatives are making with leadership and trusted them to do what's best...
Much of the current activism is simply a function of the surreal alliance between nominally conservative Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 and his former opponent--outspoken liberal Frank E. Lockwood '89--both of whom will graduate this June...