Word: colorado
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...avoid making decisions, bury all problems under layers of paperwork. As the manager of the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant, though, Silverman also knows he's sitting on a time bomb. Until production was stopped in 1989, the plant--just 16 miles from downtown Denver, Colorado--manufactured plutonium components for the nation's nuclear weapons. Enough radioactive waste remains on the premises to cover a football field to a depth...
...Herculean task: draining liquid plutonium from leaking containers, venting drums of hydrogen to prevent explosions, baking plutonium metal for storage in sealed vaults. But he and cleanup contractor Kaiser-Hill ran into a brick, or rather a paper, wall. Of the 250 cleanup "milestones" set by the EPA and Colorado's Department of Health and Environment, only two dozen spelled out concrete action. The rest mostly involved producing one report after another, generating much paper but no progress. Scores of internal policy directives, set in place by the DOE itself, further impeded the effort. "The people who wrote these procedures...
...include Russian soldiers, since Moscow agreed last week to put them essentially under NATO control.) "We're afraid Clinton will cut some kind of deal and our troops in Germany could be down there [in Bosnia] a few hours after an agreement is signed," says the bill's author, Colorado Republican Representative Joel Hefley. Without those U.S. troops, any accord achieved will probably be impossible to enforce. Unfortunately for Bill Clinton, he can't lock up a recalcitrant Congress at an Air Force base in Ohio...
...Washington, where Indian tribes failed to convince voters that they need 24-hour casinos. In Missouri, a riverboat-gambling proposal was sunk, as was an effort to win floating casinos for Indiana. And in the year's most colorful campaign, "gonzo" journalist Hunter Thompson persuaded voters in Aspen, Colorado, to unite against "the greed heads" and the "absentee-landlord scum" seeking to expand the town's airport to accommodate big jets...
With the added financial pressure of funding a trip to Colorado, said captain Liza Student, the team hopes to convince its alumnae network to give even more this year...