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...completely unfair for one county to use the river and have a ((low)) unemployment rate, and 50 miles downstream here we are with one of the highest unemployment rates in the state." In North Carolina the people of Canton have traditionally defended Champion Corp., pollution and all, for the simplest of economic motives: the company has employed generations of workers and now supports some 2,200 families. It is not surprising that North Carolina, officially and otherwise, has long ignored protests from Tennessee, choosing in 1985 to approve a five- year extension of Champion's waste-water discharge permit, even...
...angler's aids are electronic depth sounders like the one Poveromo used to locate his amberjack. Similar systems have been employed by commercial fishermen since World War II. But like VCRs, fish finders have jumped in sales as their prices have plunged, to as little as $99 for the simplest units. Today some 20 manufacturers turn out more than 200 sounders designed for freshwater and salt water. One of the largest, Alabama-based Humminbird, has doubled its sales during the past four years, to more than $50 million in 1987. Its chief rival, Lowrance Electronics of Tulsa (1987 sales: more...
...would like to have written one of the greatest poems in the English language -- William Blake's "Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright," with that verse that asks in the simplest words the question which has troubled the mind of man -- both believing and nonbelieving man -- for centuries...
...shall trespass on the editor's hospitality with one more quotation. It is a stanza that I would have been proud to have written, and it states a profound truth about the human condition in the simplest of words. It is taken from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur, translated by Edward Fitzgerald...
...failed, Griffin put together a new syndicated show, serving as host until 1986. But through the '60s and '70s, he was laying the foundation for his fortune, using game shows as the building blocks. With his wife at the time, Julann, he devised a program whose gimmick was the simplest of inversions -- giving the answer and asking for the question. Jeopardy's success funded Griffin's other investments, including Wheel of Fortune, the most profitable syndicated show ever, with estimated revenues of more than $100 million a year. The two shows were the trophy properties in Griffin's sale...