Word: colorado
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...prison life that the reader is scarcely surprised to learn that in the District of Columbia jail a young white antiwar protester of the 1960s was raped dozens of times by blacks. In a 75-page opinion, Federal Judge John L. Kane Jr. last December held that conditions in Colorado's Old Max prison were so primitive and confining that they were bound to damage the minds of the inmates...
...Olympic Committee to send a team would harm American interests by seeming to condone the Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan. Said Carter: "If legal actions are necessary to enforce the decision not to send a team to Moscow, I will take them." No need. Meeting in Colorado Springs, Colo., the U.S.O.C. voted, by more than 2 to 1, to honor the President's request and not send anyone to the Summer Games...
Entrepreneurs have joined the skiers descending on Colorado, primarily because of the state's liberal corporate disclosure requirements. New energy companies, which are sprouting up in the gas-and oil-rich region like spring wild flowers, are attempting to turn oil leases into sizable fortunes. Their offering circulars detail risks that would daunt the faint of heart. Speculation also fits the local mood. Ever since gold-rush days, Colorado has been flush with get-rich-quick gambits, a mania seen in the uranium boom of the mid-1950s...
...Denver penny market has recently plunged up to 40% because of profit taking and fears over the $227 billion oil windfall profits tax that President Carter signed into law last week. But investments from such savvy money havens as New York, California and Europe continue to flow into Colorado. Says SEC Regional Administrator Robert Davenport: "The Denver market operates on the 'greater fool' theory. Irrespective of a company's merits, people will buy its stock because they reckon a bigger fool will come along later to buy it at a higher price...
...Israel" to students and, it was hoped, offset what his countrymen see as rising anti-Israel sentiment among American youth. "People don't have to agree with the Israeli government," conceded Begin, "but I think we have a valid position." Binyamin is a geologist (with a Ph.D. from Colorado State University), "a profession," he joked, "as non-Jewish as rain making." The Premier's son made the supreme sacrifice for an Israeli: instead of wearing his customary open-necked shirt, he donned coat and tie. So strange was the four-in-hand, he insisted, that...