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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people who were here last night from Exxon didn't know anything about this," Pete McGee, a scientist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said yesterday. Exxon, state and federal officials have been conducting nightly meetings on the progress of the cleanup...
Susman put to his own purposes a tactic of the antiabortion forces, who argue that scientific advances will invalidate Roe by making the fetus viable earlier in pregnancy. Susman pressed the notion that scientific progress had made the right to abortion impossible to disentangle from the right to practice contraception. He maintained that certain forms of birth control such as intrauterine devices act after the sperm and the egg have joined, a description that some medical experts dispute. But if accurate, then such devices in effect abort what the Missouri statute would define as a living being...
...next year. To help Kohl with his political problems, the U.S. agreed to delay a decision on deploying an updated, longer-range Lance (up to 280 miles). In return, U.S. officials got the impression that Bonn would not press for missile talks with the Soviets . until there is significant progress on limiting conventional arms...
...South African government. That change, which cost Mobil millions in 1988, finally broke its stubborn resolve to stay. Said Mobil Chairman Allen Murray: "This was a difficult decision because we continue to believe that our presence and our actions have contributed greatly to economic and social progress for nonwhites in South Africa...
Schools contribute to the problem. Often a disastrous report card is the first signal parents have that Johnny or Mary has been sailing too close to the academic shoals. Education specialists say that parents should receive progress notes throughout the year, and that report cards should praise a child's strengths and indicate a plan for dealing with weaknesses...