Word: halpin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress, Exxon came under attack last week for its role in the Alaskan oil spill. In Washington leaders of two consumer groups gathered near an Exxon station to call for a nationwide boycott of the company's products. On New York's Long Island, Suffolk County Executive Pat Halpin said the local government would cut its contractual ties with Exxon as a supplier. In California a lawsuit was filed that accused the oil company of boosting gasoline prices to help pay the cost of cleaning up the spill. Across the U.S. average gasoline prices since the spill have risen more...
...Would you gamble with your child?" Even so, the law almost did not pass. When legislators first approved the bill last May, several businesses, including highly computerized New York Telephone and Northwest Airlines, threatened to relocate out of the county or limit expansion. As a result, County Executive Patrick Halpin, a onetime supporter of the measure, vetoed it. Last week, the legislators overrode his decision by a vote...
While running for President about a century ago, Grover Cleveland bumped into what might have been a fatal problem -- the public charge that he had fathered an illegitimate son by a tall, pretty widow, Maria Halpin, manager of the cloak department in a Buffalo store. To modern Americans accustomed to politics as show biz, it may be surprising to learn that Cleveland survived the scandal by acknowledging paternity and giving his organization a simple order: "Tell the truth...
Even more surprising to the 1980s sensibility is the fact that Maria Halpin remained obscure during the public sensation and later. Incredible. Had she lived in today's tattletale milieu, the mother of little Oscar Folsom Cleveland would have bounced from magazine covers right into the hot seats of Donahue and Nightline. Agents would have hatched deals for books, movies, interviews, docudramas and maybe a stint of modeling to launch a new line of lingerie called Grover's Corners...
...Weight Throw--1. Gary Halpin, Manhattan, 66-ft., 1 1/3-in.; 2. James Russell, Harvard, 64-ft., 8 3/4-in.; 3. James Driscoll, Yale, 64-ft., 3 1/4-in...