Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opponents of the sale suggested that some deals were indeed made by the President's staff. Some charged that Montana Democrat John Melcher, for example, won funding for a coal-conversion facility near Butte. Melcher said that the funding was approved long before the AWACS vote. When Majority Leader Howard Baker went to talk to the final uncommitted Senator, he told a colleague: "I've got to go talk to Sugar-I mean Senator Long." The reference was to Democrat Russell ("Sugar Ray") Long of Louisiana, who is fighting for sugar price supports in the pending farm bill...
Hsieh said yesterday that as an immediate solution to the energy shortage, he supports the use of coal and nuclear fission--the process employed in most nuclear power plants around the world--while in the long run he favors the development of nuclear fusion, which would drastically reduce the amount of waste generated by nuclear plants...
...should use fission and coal to lessen our dependence on imported oil, and at the same time, we should try and develop fusion energy as a future energy source," said Hsieh, who received the scholarship in July...
...Bible to mean that at Armageddon, Russia is going to become involved in it." Heflin remained opposed. With Democrat John Melcher of Montana, the Reagan approach may have been more down to earth: in exchange for a vote, the White House reportedly offered to reconsider funding an experimental coal plant in Butte. Melcher remained undecided...
...California that Cain funy explored this theme. In California, he found a society so new, so unstable that he didn't need floods or coal mines to bring two people passionately together. As he told Hoopes, "Any piece of California, no matter how drab, prosaic, or dull, is California just the same, the land of Golden Promise." Unlike the staid, conservative East, where the wealthy stayed wealthy and the poor stayed poor, the West had become a land of overnight wealth, of rags to riches, with nobody excluded from the chase. Many characters are willing to risk anything to find...