Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continents, in part because doctors have become more adept at diagnosing it. Since 1980 there have been nearly 6,000 officially recorded cases in the U.S., but experts say the actual number is far higher. "If it weren't for AIDS," says Microbiologist Russell Johnson of the University of Minnesota, "it would be the No. 1 new disease facing us today...
First, Phil Niekro's younger brother Joe was nabbed in a Minnesota game with an emery board in his hip pocket. He was captured on film, during an umpires' search, casually tossing something with his right hand while jettisoning something else with his left. A patch of sandpaper, described by the umps as "contoured for a finger," was also recovered from the grass. Niekro was ejected...
When the Red-baiting tactic was unearthed last week, Metzenbaum denounced it as "lies, innuendos, McCarthyism and stupidity." A red-faced Rudy Boschwitz, the Minnesota Republican who chairs the G.O.P. senatorial committee, apologized for the "insulting and outrageous" smear...
...poison-pill defense, which would increase the amount of outstanding Boeing stock and thus effectively dilute the value of the shares a raider might own. Boeing management also huddled with Washington State's political leaders to discuss the possibility that the legislature might adopt emergency anti- takeover laws, as Minnesota and North Carolina did recently when local companies were pursued by outsiders. In Washington State, any threat to Boeing (total employment: 121,500) raises deep emotions. Moreover, Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge said last week that the Pentagon might try to block Pickens if his raid is perceived...
Enclosed please find a check for my outstanding balance as of my last received bill. Enclosed please also find my charge card, which you will notice I have cut in two. Although I first joined the Coop in September of 1959, when I arrived in Cambridge from Minnesota as a Harvard freshman. I wish to discontinue our association...