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...unemployment rate currently averaging 15%, Cocke Countians openly envy the relative prosperity in Haywood County, home of the paper mill (present unemployment average: 6%). Says Cocke County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Robert Seay, co-founder of the Dead Pigeon River Council, which wants to clean up the stink: "It's 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Stink on the Pigeon | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...dioxin controversy may tempt Cocke County to take a second look at the compromise plan to improve the Pigeon's color. For the moment the Tennesseans are awaiting further EPA tests, due this summer, that might provide some answer to an urgent question: Does the Pigeon not only stink but actually kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Stink on the Pigeon | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...Boston Globe devoted three paragraphs to the game. Press row looked like a stink bomb had fallen...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Pot-Luck For B.C. | 2/10/1988 | See Source »

...itself. "The truth is that these were our children in the streets and the Chicago police beat them up," wrote Tom Wicker of the New York Times , after he watched Daley's cops wade into the scruffy, taunting, passionate young. The air was filthy with tear gas and Yippies' stink bombs and obscenities and a palpable, murderous rage. The American id thrashed up into view of the world. There were both gaiety and terror in the spectacle, and a sheer bizarre surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1968 Like a knife blade, the year severed past from future | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

Literature has gone to pot because all the great young writers and Mark Twains of today are now in Hollywood writing the Great American Screenplay. Thus novels today stink and are too caught up in the high-brow theories of our great colleges and boring to read...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: What Do I Know? | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

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