Word: colorado
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Winter is the wet season in Northern California, but this time the rain and snow just would not stop. For nine days a series of storms lashed the area and caused floods, mudslides and avalanches from the coast to Colorado. By the time the clouds began to part late last week, the area's wettest weather in more than 30 years had left at least 18 dead and forced nearly 35,000 people to flee their homes...
...piece of Lowry Air Force Base in Denver --are all redundant. But they also happen to be in districts of outspoken Democratic critics of the Pentagon: House Speaker Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts, House Budget Committee Chairman William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania, and Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder of Colorado. Predictably, all three raised a howl. Somehow, Pentagon Spokesman Robert Sims kept a straight face when he declared, "I don't think Secretary Weinberger's decision . . . had anything to do with partisan politics whatsoever...
...focused new attention on Iacocca as a potential presidential candidate. Although Iacocca votes independently, Democrats would love to claim him as their own. A Washington Post-ABC News poll last week showed him running only slightly behind New York Governor Mario Cuomo among Democrats for President, while both trailed Colorado Senator Gary Hart. But Iacocca insisted again last week that he has no presidential ambitions and that his resolve had been "put in concrete" by the week's events. He complained that politics "repulses me every time I get involved" and that Washington thrives on "dirty tricks." He said that...
...primary issue in the campaign was a proposal by Exxon to develop the oil deposits in western Colorado and the Rocky Mountains, where more oil is locked up than in the Middle East, Kelley explains...
Kelley lost her reelection bid by 13 votes in the most expensive race in Colorado history. Her opponent's campaign was financed by a large Colorado mining company, she says. Kelley had opposed the company's efforts to overturn the state's mine safety laws...