Word: colorado
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...strike date was announced, 12 teams were thinking pennant, in first place or fewer than three games out. That's partly because the majors expanded this year from four divisions to six, but it also means there was July joy in Cleveland and Oakland and Houston and Colorado...
...Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, which is bursting at the seams from the region's population boom, rangers have closed down a ski area and dismantled three dams to restore the land for elk and sheep grazing. To protect the alpine terrain above the timberline, rangers have closed off a favorite breeding haunt of the endangered bighorn sheep near Crater Lake...
...bishops' counterproposal -- that abortion should be made a "supplemental" benefit for which women could pay extra -- would be a step backward for pro-choicers, most of whose insurance companies routinely finance the services. Says Colorado Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder: "We are totally opposed to women getting private insurance for their private parts...
Eventually, last Wednesday, 52 members of fire-fighting units based in Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Oregon assembled in Glenwood Springs to put out the Storm King nuisance. They represented their risky profession's nomadic elite: smoke jumpers, who parachute out of airplanes onto wildfire sites; helitacks, who rappel from ropes and hop out of helicopters; and hotshots, the self-described "ground pounders," the infantry shock troops in the West's annual summer wars against unbridled conflagrations...
...track and played basketball in high school. And there was Levi J. Brinkley, 22, who phoned his mother back in Oregon to tell her that he and his Prineville colleagues had been to hell -- a fire in California -- and were now headed for heaven -- the Storm King site in Colorado...