Word: colorado
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Khashoggi wanted to become a petroleum engineer and enrolled in the Colorado School of Mines. But Colorado was too cold for his desert blood, so his father arranged for him to go to the California State University at Chico, a school of 2,000. Set in a conservative rural town, it was an oasis for wealthy Middle Eastern students seeking an American education. When his father sent him $10,000 to buy a car and rent a better apartment, Khashoggi purchased two trucks that he leased to the owner of a small construction company for $125 a month. "I used...
...cuts in their own rates. Without such cuts, an estimated 32 state legislatures will now stand to scoop up bigger wads of money. To some wary taxpayer organizations, that result looks a lot like unwarranted additional taxation. The states with the largest projected revenue increases in percentage terms include Colorado (22%), Montana (20%) and Kentucky...
...weekly sessions organized by the White House Office of Public Liaison, and he was soon in demand among conservative groups nationwide. His remarks in Nashville, quoted from a tape obtained by the Washington Post, were to the Council for National Policy, a group of about 500 influential conservatives including Colorado Brewer Joseph Coors, Texas Millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt and the Rev. Jerry Falwell. "Ollie let you know what is really going on in Central America," says Bradley Keena, political director of the Leadership Foundation, another conservative lobby. "Nobody really knew like Ollie knew...
Gary Hart bade farewell to his Senate years at a party in Washington last week and took steps toward two possible new careers. On the political track, the Colorado Democrat launched an exploratory committee for his 1988 presidential campaign. This week bookstores will begin stocking copies of Hart's first solo attempt at fiction, The Strategies of Zeus, an arms-control thriller. The book features a Vice President who manipulates his doddering Commander in Chief into secretly launching a killer satellite. The hero is a Montana-born arms negotiator who exudes an "aura of separateness (that) made him seem . . . strong...
Harvard consistently fielded well over 50 undergraduates at its practices during the past fall season, but it has been unable to keep pace with the improvement of the varsity programs around the country. The list of varsity teams includes Maryland, Colorado, the military academies, and Cal-Berkeley--the winner of six of the last seven national championships...