Word: roger
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After he was convicted on 13 felony counts of conspiracy and perjury two weeks ago, San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock resigned. Then last Thursday, amid allegations of jury tampering, Hedgecock's lawyers filed a motion for a new trial. The following day, just before he was due to leave office, Hedgecock announced that he would stay on, pending the outcome. Said he: "If there is no valid verdict, there is no basis for resignation...
...Once on the ground, they locate the contraband by tuning to the radio signals from the parachuted cargo. The plane crashes when it runs out of fuel. The loss of a $500,000 plane is a modest sacrifice when compared with the tens of millions the cocaine can bring. Roger Garland, operations supervisor of the U.S. Customs Air Branch based at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, once tracked a plane with no one in it for 40 miles until it splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. "There's a load of unguided missiles in the night...
...DIED. Roger Miles Blough, 81, scholarly, reserved chairman from 1955 to 1969 of U.S. Steel, then the nation's fourth-largest company in terms of assets and the flagship of U.S. industry, who in 1962 had the misfortune to tangle with President John F. Kennedy over a proposed steel-price rise; in Hawley, Pa. An infuriated Kennedy called out several federal departments and agencies, including the antitrust division and the FBI, to investigate U.S. Steel; Blough had to back down from the price boost after other steel companies declined to follow his firm's lead...
When Republican Roger Hedgecock vaulted to the office of mayor of San Diego in a special election in May 1983, his future seemed all blue sky and candy. The former San Diego County supervisor had already earned a reputation as an innovative politician determined to help the community ward off urban sprawl, and as mayor he won approval for a new bay-front convention center and helped attract the 1988 Super Bowl to San Diego. So strong was the Hedgecock sentiment that last November voters awarded him a full four-year term as mayor, even though he had been indicted...
...into the fallopian tube for fertilization. But the exact amount of Pergonal required to cause just one follicle to mature rather than three or four--or in this case seven--varies from patient to patient. As a result, repeated monitoring of Pergonal's effect is essential. Says Dr. Roger Lobo, chief of the division of infertility at U.S.C.: "We do not give Pergonal unless we are able to monitor." One monitoring procedure consists of measuring levels of the hormone estrogen in a patient's blood or urine. As the follicles mature, hormone levels gradually increase. The higher the estrogen level...