Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonsense, responds Kerr-McGee Spokesman Rick Pereles. "Our product is no more dangerous than normal fertilizer." Indeed, company tests show the substance to be no higher in radioactivity or most toxic heavy metals than many other fertilizers. Aberrations like the freak frog occur naturally, note company officials; no one has conclusively linked the product to environmental or health problems...
...annually over ten years. The first beneficiaries will be current seventh-graders. To receive the assistance, needy students must, among other things, maintain passing grades and take part in some kind of public service activity. "We want to break the poverty cycle," says the donor. Philanthropically inclined tycoons, take note...
...President and congressional leaders announced the plan, a strange air of anticlimax pervaded the White House briefing room. "This agreement is probably not the best deal that could be made," said Reagan, "but it is a good, solid beginning." House Speaker Jim Wright struck a conciliatory note: "Everybody gives some, nobody gets everything he wants." Later New Mexico's Pete Domenici, a seasoned veteran of the Reagan era's most bruising budget battles, fairly sighed with resignation: "What we have done is what can be done...
...Editor's Note: Jape Shattuck was the coach of the Harvard Men's Soccer team from...
...others to falsify testimony that former CIA Director William Casey was to deliver to Congress. Says a staffer: "Even if it doesn't say 'cover-up,' the majority report makes clear that people were trying to keep other people from knowing what had been going on." The report does note that the White House cooperated with the congressional investigation, but seven House Democrats plan to issue a separate addendum saying they disagree with this assertion...