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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future demand, the California department of waterworks has proposed $700 million worth of new dams, aqueducts and other works. That plan, however, is widely dismissed as unaffordable and unnecessary: one study calculates that it could deliver water only at a cost of over $500 an acre- foot, twice the present price for Southern California's coastal cities. "The days of the big water projects are over," says Colorado Water Lawyer John Musick. "What we're going to see is more competition for the water we already have...
...cries of alarm seemed justified. Sources close to the investigation, conducted jointly by the FBI and the Naval Investigative Service, predicted that at least 100 people will be indicted within the next 90 days. Among the suspects are past and present Pentagon officials, as well as industry employees and consultants who allegedly paid bribes for inside information that gave companies an unfair advantage in bidding for contracts. Two Democratic Congressmen or their staffs are also under scrutiny. Eventually, Operation Ill Wind may rank as one of the biggest federal white-collar crime cases ever prosecuted...
...report produced by Philip Morris listed the specific cancer-causing ingredients in cigarette smoke, concluding, "Carcinogens are found in practically every class of compounds in smoke." Another study, prepared the same year by the Arthur D. Little consulting firm for Liggett, stated, "There are biologically active materials present in cigarette tobacco that are (a) cancer causing (b) cancer promoting (c) poisonous (d) stimulating, pleasurable, and flavorful...
Fire is an ever present danger. Lightning in the eastern Sierra Nevada has sparked more than 80 fires. In Wisconsin, where 87 fires charred 250 acres last week, the state has ordered a ban on all types of outdoor fires, including barbecues and cigarette smoking, in rural areas...
...bill remedies one much criticized aspect of the present federal program: that two-parent families cannot receive benefits. The new measure extends benefits to families in which both parents are unemployed; no longer will there be an incentive for a father to leave the home. In fact, the incentives will go the other way: the bill will get delinquent fathers to pay their fair share of child support by requiring employers to deduct support payments from their wages...