Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Horty, 41, now directs one of the most ambitious efforts yet undertaken to computerize the nation's laws. During the past three years, the company that Horty organized-Aspen Systems Corp. of Pittsburgh-has fed into its memory banks the statutes of all 50 states, the U.S. Code and 14 volumes of U.S. Supreme Court decisions...
...service should prove invaluable to legislators who would need an army of researchers to dig up all the statutes and Supreme Court decisions that would be helpful in drafting new bills. And they may miss a few. Already, 31 states from New Hampshire to Hawaii have contracts with Aspen...
...customer can ask for the law on any topic, such as gun-control, and the machines will deliver the full text for every statute containing that phrase. Depending on the scope of the request, Aspen's computers take about eight hours for a 50-state search, which may cost between $1,000 and $4,000. Some examples of how the data bank has been used...
...When Robert McNamara was Secretary of Defense, his office hired Aspen to scour the U.S. Code for every mention of his title. McNamara wanted to know about all his statutory duties, no matter how obscure...
...From October to February, Trans World Airlines passenger traffic to Europe was up 21% compared with the same period in 1968-69. European ski resorts have been among the richest beneficiaries of the fares. The flight to European slopes also hurts such U.S. ski centers as Colorado's Aspen, Snowmass, and Buttermilk, which collectively suffered a 6% slide in January business...