Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Lamm, 47, Governor of Colorado, on the old adage that the economy follows women's skirt lengths: "Hemlines now are just below the knee but split to the thigh. I'm not sure what that means...
...contract is a reflection to the fact that they are in fact, down to their last penny and needed to get back to work Jim O Connor president of UAW local 974 in Peoria said Friday. His local is the largest of 10 UAW locals at Caterpillar plants in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa. Ohio Pennsylvania and Tennessee...
...Some Colorado residents have similar tales to tell. Developers flocked to build skyscrapers in Denver as the U.S. turned to the resource-rich Rocky Mountain region for relief from OPEC price gouging. Now much of that steel-and-glass space stands empty. The downtown vacancy rate, less than 1% when the energy boom peaked in 1981, has risen to 13%; the city wide rate is 20%. One landlord had offered real estate agents free trips to Paris and even luxury BMW autos as bonuses for helping to fill a new building. Other developers are giving up. Canterra Energy of Canada...
...House whizzed through a bill that would spend $425 million to improve science and math programs in schools and colleges and fund teacher training. Another 15 bills have been introduced in the Senate, including two by presidential candidates, Ohio's John Glenn and Colorado's Gary Hart, that would greatly increase the federal role in education. The Administration, however, has been backing a science-and mathematics-teacher development act, sponsored by Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a conservative Republican, that would spend just $50 million. Some Republican conservatives, like Illinois Congressman John Erlenborn, fear that more federal control...
...wooing the delegates. Five candidates devoted their evenings to wining and dining for support; the more elaborate were Reubin Askew's Florida barbecue, California Sen. Alan Cranston's open-bar bash, and Ohio Sen. John Glenn's late-night Buckeye Blast. The sixth presidential aspirant, Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, conducted an Issues Workshop. In a cramped, stuffy room of the Stonehaven Inn, Hart and two MIT professors discussed President Reagan's recent arms control proposals for about two hours. In a question and answer period, one woman asked the candidate to "tell us about yourself, tell...