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Paul L. Bloom, 70, an Energy Department lawyer who led a Carter administration effort that recovered billions of dollars from major oil companies that had overcharged their customers, died Oct. 9 of pancreatic cancer at Montgomery Hospice's Casey House in Rockville. He lived in Chevy Chase.
William C. Miller, 79, a retired Circuit Court judge in Montgomery County, who meted out the longest sentence in the county's judicial history up to that point, died Oct. 30 of congestive heart failure at his home in Silver Spring.