Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breed of banker is turning up on college campuses. Barely old enough to take out loans, much less authorize them, undergraduate financiers have established federally insured credit unions at twelve schools, from Berkeley to Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. Estimated combined assets so far: $10 million. The University of Colorado at Boulder will open one in June...
...Paradise Hill Bar, Bartender Larry Asey declared, "He's got a damn lot of friends up here." Some of those supporters apparently were calling the sheriff's office with phony tips about seeing Dallas everywhere from Canada to Colorado. The calls fooled no one as the pursuers prepared for a long, dangerous hunt in the sparsely populated region, where there are countless places to hide and plenty of folks willing to harbor a fugitive, even if he is actually as mean and brutal as most of the Old West's false heroes...
Even within the Pentagon, some officials questioned whether the measures backed by the President amounted to anything more than rearranging squares on an organization chart. In a book published this month, America Can Win, Colorado's Democratic Senator Gary Hart, founder of the military reform movement in Congress, insists that mere organizational changes are not enough. Unless the military "culture" is transformed, he insists, the U.S. risks losing its next real war. According to Hart, the military promotion < system rewards "organization men," skillful Pentagon bureaucrats, while passing over "warriors" with a true understanding...
...Democratic? Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger both did their bits for Dynasty. Tip O'Neill appeared on Cheers three years ago, and now so has Gary Hart. When the producers of the popular Boston barroom series were casting a three-part season-closing episode involving politicians, they invited the Colorado Democrat to do an eight-line walk-on as himself. The cameo, which will air in May, calls for Hart to enter the bar just after Diane (Shelley Long) has finished chastising Sam (Ted Danson) for dropping politicians' names. The Senator, having met Sam the night before, shows...
...ships across Gaddafi's line of death than rescuing American medical students did with invading Grenada in 1983; as pretexts go, it was about on a par with citing arms shipments to rebels in El Salvador in order to aid the contras in Nicaragua. Scoffed Senator Gary Hart of Colorado: "There is always some fig leaf being used...