Word: omaha
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Rare Examples. In the U.S., only a beginning has been made. In Omaha, federal, state and local funds support a center that trains the mentally retarded in simple job skills like assembling hair curlers. The city also has four hostels and three apartments in which retarded patients live. But such examples are rare, and Wolfensberger hopes for much wider acceptance of the Scandinavian approach...
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...scale of the 1960s, there have been mounting numbers of isolated incidents of guerrilla-style attacks on policemen in many U.S. cities. In July, a white officer on Chicago's South Side was shot and killed as he sat in his patrol car filling out a report. In Omaha in mid-August, one policeman was killed and seven others injured when a bomb exploded as they investigated a report of "a woman screaming." Two weeks ago, in a largely black district of Los Angeles, a policeman had his skull creased by a bullet moments after he heard the shout...
...most feed lots are situated near lakes, rivers or streams so that livestock can be watered, rain can cause heavy manure runoffs that in turn pollute the water supply. Waste materials equivalent to those produced by 100 million people, for example, have been measured in the Missouri River between Omaha and Kansas City. Such enormous manure runoffs produce disease-carrying bacteria and have so increased the nitrate and phosphate levels in some waterways that algae proliferate, choking off other forms of life. Toxic elements in manure are believed responsible for killing 1,500,000 game fish in nine states...
...year, with volume already past $9,000,000, there are 38 Frederick's of Hollywood outlets, all but three of them owned by Mellinger. The others are franchised. They are not in Newport or Palm Beach or on Fifth Avenue. Instead, the market is in places like Dayton, Omaha, Oklahoma City and Youngstown. The ultimate target, of course, is the TV-numbed husband or the uncertain swain who needs some visual encouragement to remember the woman in his life...