Word: indiana
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Eighteen years after the Gablers began their crusade, Edward Jenkinson, professor of education at Indiana University, calls them "the two most powerful people in education today." That is an overstatement. But the Gablers have certainly inspired attacks on textbooks by a host of community groups and thousands of parents throughout...
...cash, some executives of an oil company have been spending it in unusual ways: extravagant gifts, liquor, gambling money, home appliances and other perks for themselves and their friends. So federal investigators have been told by a former middle manager of Amoco, a marketing subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (Indiana...
...manager of field training in the Atlanta office, says that he was "paymaster" for a group of executives who regularly dipped into an often replenished $400,000 "training fund" that was nominally under his control. The huge pot was never audited by Amoco or Standard of Indiana accountants, or revealed to the company's out side auditors. Anderson claims to have dispensed about $1 million from 1972 to 1977 for as many as 50 of the company's southeastern regional executives...
...capital of the world. If you are talking heartland, you are standing on it: topsoil two, three, five feet deep, divided on the plot map into square-mile sections still owned by descendants of German and Scotch-Irish immigrants who cleared and settled their way across Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Indiana, out onto the prairie. If you are talking history in McLean County, you are talking about a place that has achieved its destiny, and now has time for a backward look. The traveler discovers the pathos of the conquest of the prairie sod, and romance in the development of hybrid...
Politically, Iowa is a fairly progressive state, closer in outlook to liberal Minnesota and Wisconsin than conservative Kansas or Indiana. Even so, the Register is a couple of steps to the left of Iowa opinion. Says Editorial Page Editor Gil Cranberg: "If I hated the paper as much as some of our letter writers do, I don't know why I would buy it." The paper favors abortion on demand, gun control and SALT II. It strongly supports Governor Ray, a moderate Republican, and pushed hard last year for the re-election of Senator Dick Clark, a liberal Democrat...