Word: midlands
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...slain U.S. marshals had an arrest warrant for Kahl, who had violated the terms of his probation after being convicted in Midland, Texas, in 1977 of failing to file federal income tax returns in 1973 and 1974. He had not reported to a probation officer in North Dakota, as required, and he had associated with "known tax-violator groups," in this case, the Posse Comitatus (power of the county). This loosely organized, insignificantly small, ultra-right-wing group, which has isolated chapters mainly in the rural Midwest, respects only one official: a county sheriff. It opposes all other government officials...
According to publish reports Fassi was summoned back to his country after offering the citizens of midland, Pa.. cash for their votes in the 1984 presidential election an apparent violation of the 1965 Voting Rights...
...Soviets' hunger for foodstuffs and farm equipment should dominate the sessions. The U.S. delegation is heavy with firms in businesses related to agriculture, such as Cargill, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and International Harvester Co. Says Alfred Murrer, a council director and chairman of the Gleason Works in Rochester, N.Y., a leading machine-tool maker: "We're the only country that can help them solve their farm problems...
Crocker Chairman John Place expects other banks to offer similar one-stop financial-service plans very quickly. Says he: "We just happen to be first out of the box." Britain's Midland Bank Group, which acquired 51% of Crocker in 1981, will provide most of the financing for the new venture. The British bank is pumping about $500 million into its American affiliate...
...upstate New York city of Binghamton showed a 25% increase in available jobs because defense-related industries in the area have won new Government contracts, while the thriving Texas cities of Fort Worth, Longview and Midland had 15% increases because of greater petroleum activity and a construction boom. Even depressed Detroit, burdened with an estimated 112,000 laid-off auto workers, had openings for practical nurses, receptionists, security guards, machinists and production assemblers. Jobs for construction workers were mainly available in such Sunbelt cities as Phoenix, Greenville, N.C., Houston and Tampa...