Word: coloradan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nordic Combined might as well be a smorgasbord entree to most Americans, but it may become less exotic after Sarajevo. Many consider Coloradan Kerry Lynch, 26, the world's best at the event, which pairs a 15-km cross-country race with a 70-meter ski jump. Lynch hopes for an end to the sport's, and his own, obscuri ty. For the U.S. to take the gold away from the defending champion East Germans, he says, "would be like the South Pole coming up and winning the Super Bowl...
September 21--Reagan and Hart debate on national TV, with the incumbent calling the Coloradan "a technology-mad threat to the Good Old Days." Hart retorts, "He thinks past is future...
...section on "National Security Today and Tomorrow," where he goes into great detail on weaponry and training in the control of proposing curriculum reform at West Point. But he never answers what such reform is for, aside from bet- ter fighting "the Soviets." It remains unclear whether, with the Coloradan in the Oval Office, the United States would continue to fight Communism in the outreaches of El Salvador and Nicaragua. We may, upon prodding, answer these questions too, but it is disturbing to imagine a president who, when considering domestic and foreign problems, reacts immediately for more jobs and better...
...Hale know how to find the fast lane. The Coloradan look her speed to the United States Ski Association's Junior Nationals four times. She also deferred entry to Harvard a year, became one of the eight best downhill-ers in the Rockies, and last year competed on the North American Cup circuit with other Olyimpic-class skiers...
...than in preserving endangered animals or ecosystems. Since coming into office he has appointed people with a strong prodevelopment bias to the top environmental jobs. Interior Secretary James Watt, who as a Colorado lawyer used to battle the department he now heads, is only the most prominent example. Another Coloradan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Anne Gorsuch made it a practice, as a state legislator, to oppose the EPA'S hazardous-waste and car-emission rules. Fellow Coloradan Robert Burford, chosen to head Interior's Bureau of Land Management, is a veteran of a land-hungry, anticonservationist movement...