Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Paul Barber Colorado Springs, Colo...
...cars "have one of the best safety records for cars of their size." The company contends that the suit was prompted by intragovernmental squabbling. Indeed, N.H.T.S.A. is under investigation for allegedly moving too slowly on the recall. Last week the General Accounting Office complained about irregularities and holdups. Colorado Democrat Timothy Wirth, who has been looking into similar charges in his House Telecommunications, Consumer Protection and Finance Committee, said N.H.T.S.A.'s record in the X-car case was one of "unconscionable delays...
California Democrat Tom Lantos, along with fellow Democrats Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania and Patricia Schroeder of Colorado, circulated a petition on Capitol Hill protesting the experiments as a "shocking waste of animal lives and taxpayer monies." A Washington radio station repeatedly broadcast Weinberger's office phone number so that listeners could call up to complain. After reading about the lab in his morning newspaper, Weinberger, who owns a male collie named Kilty, issued a terse one-line statement banning all Department of Defense dog shootings. Next a presumably weary Weinberger ordered a broad review of the Pentagon...
...modified Minuteman silos in 1986. "We need the MX," President Reagan urged Congress in a letter, "not only for force modernization but to keep the Soviets moving at the negotiation tables." Expected Senate approval of the funding was held up by a filibuster by Democrat Gary Hart of Colorado, a presidential candidate, who lambasted the missile as a "vulnerable, destabilizing, first-strike weapon...
...former stove factory. The premises are shared by five workers and a seven-month-old, beer-guzzling Airedale named Porter. Thousand Oaks Brewing (1982 sales: $23,460) operates from the basement of the Berkeley, Calif, home of Charles and Diana Rixford. In Boulder, Colo., David Hummer, a University of Colorado astrogeophysicist, co-founded Boulder Brewing (1982 sales: $96,000) with two partners in what used to be the goat house of a farm...