Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...observed White House Press Secretary Jody Powell last week. Through 19 party caucuses and primaries, Democrats had stuck with Jimmy Carter, the lone exceptions coming in Kennedy's home state of Massachusetts and in Alaska. But the morale of American voters has been steadily eroding. They are running out of patience on Iran. They are fed up with the Administration's ineffectual efforts to punish the Soviet Union for invading Afghanistan. They are worried about potential energy shortages. They are frightened by inflation...
Scientists were not surprised when Mount St. Helens began to rumble. The Cascades form the most volcanically active mountain range in the U.S., excluding Hawaii and Alaska. Comparatively young, they are still being shaped by forces deep within the earth. Mount St. Helens, a mere 37,000 years old ("A baby in geologic terms," said a seismologist), is one of the youngest in the range. It last erupted in 1857. Studying the evidence of explosions during the past 4,500 years, Geological Survey scientists predicted in 1978 that the symmetrical peak, visible from Portland 40 miles to the southwest, would...
...extra $50 million to $55 million; making up that sum might require a 17% increase in city real estate taxes, on top of a 20% jump already contemplated. De Seve insists that Carter and Congress should target budget cuts on what he derisively calls the "OPEC states," principally Alaska, California, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, which are collecting huge revenues from oil production...
...moves, including standby rationing. Without rationing, Bradshaw fears the U.S will face the hard choice of either shortages or import surges in the early 1980s. Domestic reserves are declining, and while there is potential for vast discovery deep below the hostile, ice-choked waters of the Beaufort Sea off Alaska and Canada that will take years to prove and develop. So will solar power, though Bradshaw's firm is spending millions experimenting with it, and "our company will play any wild card in solar. But when we think of alternatives to oil in the 1980s, we are simply stuck...
...Carter picked up at least 178 of the 208 delegates at stake in last week's contests so far, for a total of 222 to Kennedy's 113. The President also swept Democratic caucuses in Delaware, Hawaii, Oklahoma and Washington. He lost to Kennedy only in Alaska's caucuses. Chortled Carter to Georgia Governor George Busbee: "We whipped...