Word: colorado
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...repair hangar. The National Transportation Safety Board approved 10 safety recommendations for the Boeing 737 on Tuesday. The agency's action followed its investigation into two fatal air crashes, the 1994 crash of a USAir flight outside Pittsburgh and the 1991 crash of a United Airlines flight outside Colorado Springs. The board determined that a mechanical problem probably caused the crashes when the airliner rudder reversed, and recommended that the problem be fixed by making the rudder system redundant. "It's about time," says TIME reporter Jerry Hannifin...
Alex A. Boni-Saenz '01, another sponsor of the bill, said student governments at other schools--such as the University of Colorado and the University of Connecticut--have already supported the resolution...
Americans do believe in property rights--including the right to profit by selling. So the farmers and ranchers who feel squeezed out when tract housing plunks down next to their pasture often think about cashing in. "You get people waving millions," says Ben Wurtsmith, 67, a rancher in Colorado's Eagle County, not far from the exploding area around Vail. "Some days you just think about taking the money and taking off." One way to solve the problem, being used in parts of Colorado, is "development rights," which let builders put up houses more densely near town in exchange...
...crude. Nationwide the price collapse has so far cost 24,000 jobs, with an additional 17,000 at risk in the first half of 1999, according to the American Petroleum Institute. Almost 140,000 domestic oil wells have been abandoned in little over a year, principally in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Louisiana, forcing U.S. daily production down by 360,000 bbl. a day. In Alaska, which depends on tax revenues from oil, the state is forecasting a $1 billion budget gap, equal to about half the money it needs to pay for the day-to-day running of government...
...fury at his acquittal that has no place to go. Somehow, people like Morrow and me haven't been showing up in the all-powerful polls, but Morrow has validated the reality that we too are still here, our minds intact and our loss quite real. LYN A. GRIFFITHS Colorado Springs...