Aiken County Progress Report summarizing 1982 gains
County Administrator Scott Barnes presented a year end progress report to County Council highlighting 1982 accomplishments. Improvements include department reorganization merit based pay for employees new judicial center road equipment and law enforcement facilities. 1983 goals emphasize development revenue alternatives goal setting cooperation and better public safety.
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Scott Barnes
Aiken County
Barnes
County Council
Court House
Wagener Road
Council
Andropov Targets Full Employment in Soviet Drive
The regime prioritizes full employment as its top domestic goal under Yuri Andropov. Despite living standards about half of West Germany, Russia pressures productivity amid overstaffing and lousing. PravdaPublish letters from workers describe job conditions and a system rewarding neither merit nor effort.
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Yuri Andropov
Soviet Union
West Germany
Pravda
Weeding Solution From Hanover For South Carolina Lakes
South Carolina officials face rising weed infestations in lakes. A West German case shows Hanover using 16,000 Chinese grass carp to clear a 78 hectare lake named Maschsee. The carp, vegetarian weed eaters, soon kept the lake weed free and prompted an open season on the 10 pound plus fish.
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South Carolina
West Germany
Hanover
Thought For Today Quote Attributed To Maurois
Thought for today presents a sardonic view attributed to Andre Maurois contrasting two perilous legacies from the Middle Ages gunpowder and romantic love. The remark echoes enduring debates on passion and technology shaping history.
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Andre Maurois
State Department Gift Wraps Islands to Pacific Nations
Washington debate over relinquishing U S sovereignty to Kiribati Tuvalu and the Cook Islands over 25 South Pacific atolls including Christmas Atoll. Critics charge the claims rest on shaky law while former officials warn of strategic and economic losses and Soviet interests.
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Washington
State Department
Panama Canal
Omar Torrijos
Panama
South Pacific
United States
French Polynesia
Gilberts
Mar
U.S. State Department
U.S
Kiribati
Tuvalu
Cook Islands
New Zealand
Warren Christopher
Alexander Haig
Mark Seidenberg
The
Society For the Protection of
Seidenberg
Canton
Christmas Islands
Adm
Thomas Moorer
Senate
Tveats
The Jarvik heart milestone and its ironies
A retrospective on the Jarvik heart breakthrough, tracing inventors from Hufnagel to DeBakey and Barnard, noting the accidental path of Dr. Jarvik, the Tupperware tale, and key advances like surgical staples and bypass grafts that enabled the first successful implant in December.
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Jarvik
Paul
Dr. Jarvik
Salt Lake City
Dr. Clark
Bob Jarvik
Syracuse U
University of Bologna
Italy
New York University
University of Utah
George Hufnagel
Georgetown University
Michael DeBakey
South Africa
Christian Barnard
Rene Favaloro
Cleveland Clinic
Houston
Denton Cooley
Norman Shumway
Stanford
Righteous protests looting questioned as column ponders tone
A columnist criticizes protests that focus on liquor-store looting as unrighteous and shares humorous anecdotes about early Christmas shopping, Toyota ads and Datsun commercials. The piece cites Italian proverbs and notes the paradoxes in public money, marriage, and wealth.
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Charles McCabe
San Francisco Chronicle
John Newbern
P. M. Rodebaugh
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Russia
Shalls
Christmas Atoll
Ashley
Wayne Mackey
Wayne
Toyota
Datsun
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