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Delaware in national spotlight through turbulent decade
Delaware faced a decade of upheaval from 1970 to 1980. Cabinet government replaced commissions, the Coastal Zone Act curbed offshore oil while facing federal scrutiny, and fiscal crises followed. Governors Peterson Tribbitt and du Pont pushed reforms, yet deficits persisted, alongside prison corruption probes and a historic Senate upset by Joseph Biden.
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Dover
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Delaware
Peoples Temple
Robert Halbrook
Georgetown
Russell W. Peterson
Shall Oi Co
Smyrna
Pierre S. du Pont IV
U.S. Department of Energy
DOE
Peterson
Odessa
Sherman
Standard & Poors
Farmers Bank
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Bank
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Cielewich
Nellius
Department of Corrections
du Pont
Delaware Correctional Center
Community Legal Aid Society
U.S. District Court
Murray M. Schwartz
DCC
Department of Correctons
Corrections Commissioniss
John J Moran
Peterson Pears
Tibert
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Tribirt
Moran
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Charles Terry
Tribbitt
House of Representatives
Tribbit
Joseph R. Biden Jr
U.S. Senate
J. Caleb Boggs
Boggs
Congress
State House
J. Allen Frear
Biden
Elan
Kennedys
New
du Ponts
U.S. House
Ail
Dw Port
Mexco
GOP
Tomee & Gark