Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with our language of moderation, peace, everything, trusting justice rather than strength," says the candidate. "I know it's difficult. But I believe the people will be angry enough to use their vote as long as they are allowed to use it. I am like a salmon fighting against the currents, even if that is not a good example." He laughs gently. "The salmon always dies when he gets to his destination." Tomorrow begins at 4 a.m., when the caravan will drive toward another department, where Guatemala's forgotten men hope against hope to turn back what seems...
...ACSR to reconsider Harvard's automatic ban on South Africa loans, enacted in 1978 after months of student protest. "We do think there may be such a thing as 'good loan' to an arm of the South African government," he wrote in a private letter to Walter J. Salmon, Roth Professor of Retailing at the Business School and chairman of the committee...
...tons in 1972 to just 790 tons by 1979 in Massachusetts, from 41,000 to 3,500 in Maine and New Hampshire, and from 139,000 to 82,000 in previously hazy Detroit. In one of the many rivers cleaned up under EPA rules, the Penobscot in Maine, one salmon was caught in all of 1970, but nearly one a day by 1978. Under EPA pressure, corporate dumping of toxic wastes into the Gulf of Mexico has dropped from an authorized 1.4 million tons in 1973 to zero...
...usual fractious party conclave at a slightly seamy seaside resort that Britons have come to know and sometimes dread. Burnishing its image as the new model of British politics, the Social Democratic Party chartered a special train (promptly dubbed the "Flying Moderate" by some, the "Smoked Salmon Special" by others) for its first conference last week and took its show on the road for a rollicking six-day, three-city, thousand-mile extravaganza. The tour ingeniously gave each of the party's four leaders, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, William Rodgers and David Owen, who are all former Labor Cabinet...
...with a proposal to build a hydroelectric plant there. Company stockholders were receptive because the dam faced financial troubles. The Department of the Interior had ordered the company to construct a $1.5 million fish ladder to help the Merrimack River's growing schools of Atlantic salmon move upstream to spawn. The company stockholders agreed to sell out to the investment group, which later formed a partnership with E G & G, a Wellesley, Mass., energy-equipment company (1980 sales: $613 million). Financing for the $28 million project came from Chase Manhattan Bank, Mutual of New York insurance company...