Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolfson stated that the proposal would only apply to secondary schools, but Stephen B. Burbank, legal council to the University of Pennsylvania, said the guidelines also mention colleges as possible candidates for IRS action...
...Pennsylvania voters elected exactly 101 Republicans and 101 Democrats to their state's 203-seat legislature. And the race for the remaining seat ended in a tie (8,551 votes apiece) between a Democrat and a Republican. Since the legislature could not deal with such matters as choosing a speaker until the tie was broken, it seemed that the two candidates might have to settle their contest by drawing lots. Last week, however, a recount in the deadlocked district showed that Incumbent Kenneth Cole, a Democrat, had actually won by 14 votes. But soon, alas, the legislature was back...
...next year before a vote can be held to fill Meluskey's seat. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania politicians have something to ponder. The cause of Meluskey's death: heart failure, possibly triggered, said a Dade County, Fla., medical examiner, by the stress of campaigning...
Some states have slapped extremely high taxes on liquor and created state-run monopolies to sell it, at a stout profit. A prime example is Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board, which has become the nation's biggest buyer of alcoholic beverages (last year's total: 11 million cases, worth $280 million wholesale). Before a bottle of liquor goes on sale at any of Pennsylvania's 750 "state stores," the board jacks up the price 48% for its own profit, then adds an 18% "emergency" tax levied decades ago to help victims of the 1936 Johnstown flood, and finally tacks...
...Lasker Foundation awarded two other 1978 prizes, each also worth $15,000. The Clinical Medical Research Award was shared by three scientists: Dr. Robert Austrian of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, for developing a vaccine that could prevent three quarters of the nation's estimated 750,000 annual cases of pneumococcal pneumonia; Dr. Emil Gotschlich of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, who developed a vaccine that is 90% effective against meningococcal meningitis; and Dr. Michael Heidelberger of New York University, for research that helped produce both vaccines...