Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teams of Harvard debaters will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., next week to attend the National Debate Tournament (NDT) at the U.S. Air Force Academy. This marks the first time in Harvard's history that two of its teams have qualified for the event...
Cambridge must decide, as a matter of deliberate public policy, what sort of community it would like to be. Throughout the country, from Maine to Colorado to our seashores, there has risen a new concern for the environmental quality of our daily living. New laws have limited tourist-related development in Vermont. Even in Florida, residents are taking a second look at the consequences of policies which emphasize the most intensive possible use of available land...
...Leisure Village who built a fence around their community [March 11] reminds me of how Greeley, Colo., built a fence around the city in 1871. It was built to protect the city gardens and crops from the livestock of neighbors and farmers outside, and it was necessary for the Colorado legislature to act favorably before the townspeople were allowed to close the gates to the new city at night. The fence lasted until 1874, when it was sold...
...chorus of mournful noise is issuing from the cattle-feeding pens of Colorado, Texas and the Middle West-and not just from the steers awaiting slaughter. The feed-lot operators are moaning too, because a consumer rebellion against beef and soaring costs of fattening cattle threaten to trim their profits to the bone. Says an official of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association: "A lot of boys are going to belly...
...operators see no quick way out of their bind. "We need 50? a lb. to break even," says Bill Webster, president of the Colorado Cattle Feeders Association, "but at just that level the consumer seems to stiffen. We can't sell there." In similar circumstances executives in other businesses might elect to keep then" products off the market until prices rose. But the feeders cannot readily do that: the critters go on gobbling expensive corn, put on still more pounds-and packers pay less per pound for overweight steers than they do for pleasingly plump ones, because the additional...