Word: colorado
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...Mondale controversy began during last spring's Democratic primaries. Colorado Senator Gary Hart, Mondale's closest rival for the nomination, accused his opponent of using "delegate committees" to pump money illegally into his campaign. The 130 groups, organized by local supporters seeking to become convention delegates, claimed that they were independent of the Mondale organization and thus exempt both from federal limits on national campaign contributions and from the candidate's own pledge to reject money from Political Action Committees. Hart's success in turning the tactic into a campaign issue forced Mondale to disband...
Broad-shouldered, bushy-eyebrowed Julio María Sanguinetti, 48, bounded to the platform in the cavernous assembly hall of Montevideo's Colorado Party headquarters and gave a cheering crowd of election-night supporters the good news. "The verdict of the polls indicates we are the majority," he said. "We will not be an arrogant majority. We will have republican humility." With that pledge, President-elect Sanguinetti marked Uruguay's return to civilian government after eleven years of military rule...
Sanguinetti, a lawyer, journalist and former Cabinet minister, settled an argument in 1970 with a fellow Colorado Party member by drawing first blood in a saber duel (legal in Uruguay under a 1920 law). He vowed last week as President to take a more conciliatory approach to Uruguay's problems. Said he: "Nobody has a mathematical method to prevent a new coup. The only way is to act maturely...
What quantity and quality of hospital care people have a right to expect lies at the center of the problem, particularly since 90% of the bills are paid by some type of organization. As Colorado's Governor Lamm tartly puts it, "We give food stamps, but we don't give people the right to go to Jack's [an expensive San Francisco restaurant] for dinner." Harry Schwartz, writer in residence at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, maintains that "people simply do not realize the costs of health care. In making medical care seem free, we've made people...
...world's second recipient of an artificial heart was getting out of bed and sitting in a chair, eating solid foods-warm porridge and cottage cheese-and sipping that longed-for beer, which he promptly dubbed "the Coors cure." Well-wishers had sent cases of the Colorado brew and other brands, in addition to crateloads of cards, plants and bouquets, even a Cabbage Patch doll...