Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another apparent casualty of the Colorado talks was an arbitrary ceiling on imports of foreign oil, which is now flowing into the U.S. at a rate of 7.3 million bbl. a day. The experts found that such a limit not only would bring back the long lines at the gas pumps but would worsen the current economic downturn. Administration predictions show that a "cap" holding oil imports to 1 million bbl. a day would gouge as much as $25 billion out of the gross national product and add upward of 400,000 to the unemployment rolls within a year...
...cheeses, and sausages from his children. The President gave Betty a yellow quilted bathrobe. As the family opened their presents, Ford could see the ski slopes through a picture window, and later he got in a run or two before turning to the work that had followed him to Colorado. As he put it, "Scrooge came with Santa Claus: Rumsfeld came...
Secret Service agents could have immediately mowed down the intruder. But the President and his family were off in Colorado, and the gate-crasher was making no threats. All he wanted was to speak to the ambassador from Pakistan. So the guards waited patiently for four hours while the intruder delivered an unintelligible harangue. When Pakistani Ambassador Sahabzada Yaqub Khan failed to appear, the stranger asked the Secret Service to broadcast his demand for a meeting. The guards complied, and the man listened to the message on his car radio. Then he plucked a white cloth from his pocket...
...President Gerald Ford packed his bags last week for a ten-day skiing holiday in Colorado, yet another blizzard of bad news about sales, prices, jobs and profits swept down on the U.S. It brought fresh evidence, if any were needed, that the President has some urgent and complex decisions to make next month about how-and how far -to shift his strategies for dealing with deepening recession, continuing inflation and energy problems...
...athletes also follow more exotic pursuits. Earlie Thomas, a cornerback for the New York Jets, spends his off seasons chasing bugs as he works toward a master's in entomology at Colorado State. The subject of his thesis: "The Different Effects of Cultural Methods on Bathyplectes Curculionis and Its Host," a study of one species of parasite wasp. "I've always been curious about insects," Thomas says. "You could spend one full year on one insect and still not know all there is to know about it." Thomas' fascination has been an abiding one; he took...