Word: colorado
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...Colorado Governor Roy Romer, the new D.N.C. chairman, announced new check-screening procedures and reiterated the fund-raising guidelines that forbid soliciting contributions in return for White House invitations and bar most party-related activities from government buildings. But with the flood of new evidence being released, there are more calls for a special prosecutor. Attorney General Janet Reno continues to resist, claiming she still hasn't seen sufficient evidence of lawbreaking by high government officials, the threshold requirement. Reno promises to reconsider after a Justice Department task force concludes its ongoing investigation, which could take several months...
...Dallas Morning News, sent chills through survivors and the kin of the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995, blast. The words, purportedly gleaned from defense interviews with McVeigh between July and December 1995, also sent McVeigh's lead attorney, Stephen Jones, into damage control in Denver, Colorado, where jury selection is set to begin on March 31. For 30 minutes he complained about the Morning News story in the court of U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch, and then launched into a diatribe against the paper in a press conference. Jones claimed the daily was practicing "the most irresponsible...
...they're dealing too. Utilities everywhere are forging new alliances. Just last week two U.S. companies, Public Service Co. of Colorado and American Electric Power Co. of Ohio, joined forces for a $2.4 billion purchase of Yorkshire Electricity Group of Britain, another country that is deregulating electricity. There they'll find Central and South West Corp., a Texas-based utility that now has operations in Britain. "We were a highly integrated, lumbering utility," says ceo E.R. Brooks of the bold expansion. "We might as well face the future...
...looked down at my yogurt. Then I looked back at Senator McConnell's image on the television screen. He was smiling. The format of the program was a sort of debate with Governor Roy Romer of Colorado, new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Senator McConnell seems to be one of those politicians who are careful to keep a smile on their face when they are being combative. I think it's meant to be a knowing smile. Did he know something about my yogurt that I didn't know? Because...
...brainchild of U.S. Term Limits, a citizens group which zealously advocates limiting service to 12 years in the U.S. Senate and 6 in the House; the group finds no other limits to tenure acceptable. Referenda with essentially the same details as the Arkansas measure have passed in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota. It is not immediately clear whether the Court's refusal to overturn the Arkansas case will directly affect those states...