Word: mcfarland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prime reason for the nervousness is that no one is sure just how much property the Government will be taking over. Stuart McFarland, chairman of Virginia-based Skyline Financial Services, which manages 8,000 repossessed properties in 21 states for the Government, estimates that the real estate might total $200 billion or more. The load of S & L properties is compounded by a growing stock of real estate that other Government agencies have taken over in recent years because of loan defaults. The Farmers Home Administration will have to dispose of 1.3 million acres of farmland, a territory roughly...
Pesticides became the focus of controversy inthe early 1980s when high incidences of cancerappeared in some regions. The town of McFarland inNorthern California has reported 13 cases ofcancer in the last eight years, four times thenormal level for a town of 2000 people, accordingto epidemiologists...
...very volatile issue," said Raul Perez'89, who lives one hour away from McFarland inFresno...
...other TV-era President -- an average of about six a year, compared with 22 1/2 for John F. Kennedy -- and informal access to him has been tightly restricted. "Shouting questions above the roar of helicopter engines just does not make it," says NBC News Washington bureau chief Robert McFarland...
...issue to issue, earnestly discussing relations with the Soviet Union, denouncing crack- dealing youth gangs and even trumpeting plans for the exploration of Mars. The closest Jackson has come to finding a focus for his diffuse California campaign was to use environmental cancer hazards in the farmworker community of McFarland as a symbol of the causes that animate his passions. McFarland, Jackson declared, represents his concern for "the environment, toxic waste, safe food, clean water, health care, abandoned workers, safety ((and)) Mexican-Americans...