Word: rea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paper's rehabilitation began in the mid-1970s under Rea Hederman, whose family had owned the publication for more than 40 years. Hederman expanded the staff and news budget. Editors began to pursue promising young reporters, even from other states. To help gain credibility among blacks, who are 42% of Jackson's population, the paper increased black coverage and staff (current total: four of the 27 reporters...
...prices may be headed down, but the heat on natural gas keeps rising. Some tempers were getting close to the boiling point last week over President Rea gan's industry gas decontrol package, a complex effort to reshape an industry distorted by layers of regulation. Said Robert Hefner, president of GHK Co., an independent Oklahoma City gas producer: "We're getting double-crossed, and we're going to fight like hell...
...George, welcome to the team," said President Ronald Reagan at a swearing-in ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House last Friday afternoon. Rea gan complimented the Senate on "its wisdom," described Shultz as "a man with character and common sense," and observed: "Today I am reminded of the old saying, 'Let George do it.' And George, from now on, I think I'll have a few things...
...increased numbers. Refugees from Viet Nam and Cuba have helped create sizable pockets of the disease in California (1,038 reported cases), Hawaii (759), Texas (509), New York (401) and Florida (115). Though health authorities routinely screen immigrants and refugees, leprosy often escapes notice. Explains Dr. Thomas Rea, who treats 320 leprosy patients in Los Angeles: "It can take up to 20 years after infection before symptoms appear...
...Tennessee Valley Authority were delivering 3.19 billion kilowatt hours of electricity at about half the average national rate and the TVA was playing a major part in the economic revival of the South. The spread of low-cost electricity was also the mission of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), which loaned money at low interest (3%) to cooperative power systems. In seven years, the REA helped increase the number of farms supplied with electricity from 750,000 to 2.125 million (11% to 35% of the total...