Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Governors' chairs. Only seven G.O.P. incumbents will be up for reelection, but fully 22 incumbent Democratic Governors must place their performance records on the line by '78. Possible G.O.P. gains include Maryland, where Marvin Mandel is still trying to stay out of jail on corruption charges and Colorado, where Richard Lamm has seen his support steadily erode...
...states of Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Ohio, Oregon and Washington, there were initiatives to put tight restrictions on the building of new nuclear-power plants. In a stunning defeat for the persistent foes of nuclear power, the initiatives lost across the board. All of the proposals contained the same two key provisions: 1) that utilities accept unlimited liability in the event of nuclear disaster, waiving the federally imposed limit of $560 million for any one accident, and 2) that state legislatures certify-usually by two-thirds majorities, which are difficult to get-that each proposed plant meet stringent safety requirements...
Older brother Bill linebackered for UCLA, younger brother Brian is currently a second-team cornerback there, there were nine full-time varsity coaches at his high school, and he has high school teammates currently enrolled at such places as USC, San Diego State and Colorado State...
Antinuclear forces-aided by $75,000 in contributions from Folk Singer John Denver-have waged effective campaigns that may carry the antiplant proposals in Oregon and Colorado. But they have been more heavily outs pent -by a ratio of 7 to 1 in Washington, for example-by utilities and other pro-plant forces, which fear that passage of the proposals will effectively halt any future construction of nuclear power facilities...
...foreign experts who convened at the University of Colorado's recent energy conference in Boulder, fully expect that the current price of $11.51 per bbl. (for low-sulfur crude at the Persian Gulf) will rise anywhere from 10% to 20%. As OPEC members see it, the industrialized nations can well afford the tab. The world recession seems to have largely lifted, and crude oil sales are rising as a result. Tanker charters have emerged from the doldrums, as top customers have scrambled to stock up on crude before the price rises again, often paying a 25? or 30? premium...