Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colorado Springs, Colo...
...knowledge. "I would hate to see manipulation of genes for behavioral ends," warns Stanford Geneticist Seymour Kessler, "because as man's environment changes, and as man changes his environment, it is important to maintain flexibility." Professor Gerald McClearn of the Institute for Behavorial Genetics at the University of Colorado agrees, explaining that a gene that is considered "bad" now might become necessary for survival in the event of drastic environmental change. "It is foolhardy to eliminate genetic variability," he says. "That is our evolutionary bankroll, and we dare not squander it. Species that ran out of variability...
...Easy Job. The trouble is that much of this treasure is not recoverable with today's technology at today's prices. The Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, for example, hold billions of barrels of oil imprisoned in shale. Estimates of the price that would have to be charged for oil crushed and burned out of that rock run as high as $5 a barrel v. $3.25 for crude oil pumped out of U.S. wells, and roughly $2 for Middle Eastern crude. In addition, the shale-extraction process piles up mountains of ash that would create environmental hazards...
...final hours before the roll call, Nixon also summoned to the White House five Senators believed to be against him on the issue. He saw another avenue of possible success when two of them, New York's Freshman Senator James Buckley and Colorado's Republican Peter Dominick, assured him that they would vote for the plane. An Administration victory hinged on preventing any unanticipated defections...
When the roll call began in a hushed and crowded chamber, opponents of the SST proceeded slowly in the hope that one of their number, Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, could return in time from a Colorado skiing trip, which he had recklessly extended to the day of the vote. Slowed by icy roads, Bayh missed a flight-and the roll call...