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Brooks was the first, but since 1977 the new technique has become something of a legislative fad in the West. In addition to Texas, neighboring Oklahoma and New Mexico have nearly identical laws, as does Idaho; in Washington, the condemned have a choice: lethal injection or hanging. A dozen other states have rejected similar changes, but Massachusetts is now close to adopting such a provision. "Technology has come a long way since the electric chair," says State Senator Edward Kirby. "Because an injection is less painful and less offensive it would be foolish...
...think there's anything wrong with a kid going to Oklahoma for four years and moving on the the NFI., Sports is such a big part of the American culture," he said...
...Musberger believes that universities do owe something to an athlete. "Oklahoma owes it to him that he knows how to talk contract," the Northwestern University graduate stated Major college football players will never do anything as well as they block, tackle or catch passes. Musberger said, adding that a university's responsibility is to give athletes the basic education they need to carry on their careers...
...Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base, watchdogs programmed their computers to detect increases of 300% or more in the cost of spare parts for aircraft engines charged by the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group of United Technologies in fiscal year 1982. The results, said an auditor, were "staggering." Robert S. Hancock, an official of the Air Logistics Center near Oklahoma City, said that in just the one year, Pratt & Whitney's "repricing" policy had cost the Government "something on the order of $140 million." He termed the findings "only the tip of the iceberg" and contended that Pratt & Whitney...
...million project was built with contributions from more than 60 companies. Oklahoma-based Phillips Petroleum Co. chipped in $2 million and its former chairman, William Martin, directed the fund-raising campaign...