Word: colorados
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...attest to, is far different. In the vast majority of cases, the accused has no trial. His "day" in court is the few minutes it takes him to plead guilty. "Here we have an elaborate jury trial system, and only 10% of the accused get to use it," says Colorado Law School Professor Albert H. Alschuler. "That's like solving America's transportation problems by giving | 10% Cadillacs and making the rest go barefoot." For most defendants, justice is done by way of a deal: a guilty plea in exchange for the promise of reduced charges...
...union retaliation. "The Business Roundtable is the most ineffectual lobby in Washington," contends Paul Weyrich, who heads a conservative lobby named the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress. "They want to compromise before compromise is warranted. They never want to play hard ball." James McKevitt, a former Colorado Congressman who is the Washington counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business, is similarly scornful. Says he of the top executives: "Too many of them suck eggs with the President...
...typically skillful practitioner is Timothy Wirth, 38, a liberal Democrat who reigns in Colorado's conservative Second District. His life is 80 hours a week of work, including a ride in the Red Zinger bicycle classic and a two-hour town meeting devoted to foreign policy. He knows how to work a parade so that all the people see him. When pollution became a problem in Denver, he carried a breath analyzer in his van for constituents who wanted to know the amount of carbon monoxide in their lungs. All summer he will be meeting, talking, shaking and listening...
Throughout the Great Plains, hordes of grasshoppers were on the move last week, threatening millions of acres of crops and rangeland in eastern Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. It was the worst infestation since 1958, when billions of the pests caused $60 million in losses to Colorado farmers alone. Agricultural experts were not yet able to estimate the current damage but reckoned that total losses would run into millions of dollars. Farmers reported that up to 20% of some crops had been destroyed. Said a Department of Agriculture spokesman: "The hoppers eat everything in sight. Already we're hearing...
...fight the pests, Governor J. James Exon declared Nebraska a disaster area and made $500,000 in state funds available for spraying. The Colorado legislature, called into special session last week by Governor Richard D. Lamm, voted $2 million for emergency treatment of fields...