Editorial warns Kansas on three key industries in lean times
A year end briefing flags three vulnerable sectors agriculture oil and gas and aviation as Kansas lawmakers consider 1999 expenditures. With hog prices and yields fluctuating and oil output falling many worry tax cuts and major projects could strain state revenues if the economy slows. Boeing job cuts and Cessna expansions loom as Wichita weighs aviation impact alongside farm and energy prospects.
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Kansas
Kansas Geological Survey
Cessna
Raytheon
Wichita
Boeing
Gadsden Purchase and Kipling Birth Facts Highlight 1853 1865
The United States acquired about 45,000 square miles of Mexican land in the 1853 Gadsden Purchase. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India in 1865.
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United States
Mexico
Gadsden
Rudyard Kipling
Bombay
India
Conscience vote shadows Clinton amid Quinn impeachment delay
David Shribman notes the tale of Jack Quinn, a Buffalo area Republican with union backing who shifted from unwavering support for Clinton to voting for three impeachment articles. Quinn cites conscience after weighing political risk and district ties, leaving Clinton exposed ahead of a Senate trial while illustrating the fragile balance between party loyalty and principle.
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Senate
Lewinsky
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Lake Erie
Bill Clinton
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Massachusetts
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Joseph 2. Kennedy
Quinny
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Richard K. Armey
Buffalo News
Congress
America
South Buffalo
Bethlehem Steel Co
Lackawanna
Arief
New York
Buffalo
David Shribman
Fusion Lobe
Public mood shift on Clinton era moral values debated
Mona Charen surveys Mark Steyn Andrew Ferguson and Karl Zinsmeister arguing Clinton's loathsome image persists despite a less engaged electorate. Data show declines in illegitimacy abortion teen sex and crime alongside rising welfare skepticism and calls for virtue linked to public tolerance and judgment.
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The
London Spectator
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Weekly Standard
American Enterprise Magazine
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Ferguson
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Washington Press Corps
Bill Clinton
William Rickenbacker
Zinsmeister
Heaven
Hell
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Creators Syndicate
Journal-World Postal Address Notice and Credits
Postmaster: Send address changes to the Journal-World in Lawrence Kansas. Mentions Audit Bureau of Circulations and Associated Press credits. Includes mailing box information and identifiers for Pergar and trace, Kan.
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P.O
Lawrence
Kan
Pergar
Trace
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Public Forum Letter Cautions Special Interests and Chamber Picks
A reader urges vigilance against well financed special interest groups and paid lobbyists pushing agendas to city county and state officials. The letter asks for community alertness if the Chamber of Commerce presents hand picked candidates for the city commission and notes Journal World letters policy requirements.
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Chamber of Commerce
Phil Minkin
Journal-World
Ijworld.com
Old Home Town Motor fuel enough. Kent saves brother dies
Local stations report adequate supplies as Venezuela sets a world record crude price at 14.08 dollars per barrel. In North Lawrence, 14-year-old William M Kent died after rescuing his younger brothers from a fire, having first aided a 4-year-old. A Journal-World survey finds many Americans favor higher fuel taxes over rationing amid the OPEC embargo.
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Venezuela
William M. Kent
North Lawrence
Young Kent
Donnie
Journal-World
New Year's Eve Snow theme. Orange Bowl rivalry featured
Amid forecasts of eight inches of snow many stay home watching football bowl games as Oklahoma faces Syracuse in the Orange Bowl alongside en Bowl Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl. The Merchants Athletic Assn building opened December 30 1898 at 725 Vt with 500 invitations and a tour of the venue from bowling alley to banquet hall.
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Syracuse
Merchants Athletic Assn
Lawrence Journal
Watkins Community Museum
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