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...mayor has refused to sign the council's bill because the city "cannot deal with the schools in isolation," Richard Johnston, special counsel for the city, said after yesterday's hearings. He added that the mayor wants greater control over school spending and the council's authorization to borrow money for both the school deficit and property tax abatements. The mayor's latest counterproposal asks for a $45 million bond issue...
...proposal is highly controversial, and residents of dome areas are already up in arms. In Louisiana, a group calling itself Citizens Against Radioactive Storage has been formed. During the last session of Congress, Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston introduced a bill that would have blocked the use of salt domes by calling for storage in shallow beds, where, in case of leakage, the material would be more easily retrievable. Vows Louisiana Governor David Treen: "Unless it could be demonstrated that storing nuclear waste in salt domes is absolutely safe, I would oppose...
...Music, the Doobies have turned fancier, slicker and more synthetic. They were a good singles band that was tuned up and turned into a commercial phenomenon. Producer Ted Templeman did the tuning. When he produced the first Doobies album in 1971, the band was led by Founder Tom Johnston, a hang-tough rocker who wrote many of the group's first hits. Templeman gave the early records an uncluttered, unaffected sound. But as the group started to change, its producer changed with it, and if he did not initiate these changes and new directions, he certainly encouraged them...
Faced with such rhetoric, Preyer has lately loosened the gloves. Calling Johnston a "member of the radical right," Preyer says, "He wants to repeal the 20th century. What I'm concerned about is the 21st. "Johnston has quickly turned the phrase to his own advantage. Sure he is a radical, says Johnston, "the right radical...
Genex Corp. of Rockville, Md., another fast-rising entry in the field, was founded three years ago by Molecular Biologist Leslie Glick and another professional raiser of venture capital, Robert Johnston. Though the company is secretive about its projects, Bristol-Myers revealed that Genex is working for it on the production of interferon...