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Great Plains has been the only large synfuels plant to start production. Most other projects were halted in the planning stage, before construction began. The industry's increasing troubles have had the most serious repercussions in the West. In Colorado, the residents of four counties that sit atop shale-oil deposits still speak of May 2, 1982, as "Black Sunday." On that day, Exxon and Tosco pulled out of their Colony Oil shale project after having invested about $1 billion. Home prices in Mesa County tumbled by as much as 50%. Unemployment climbed to 15%, and now stands...
...single-scoop shop that they had opened in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vt. Now Cohen and Greenfield, both 34, distribute their unusual flavors, including mint with Oreo cookies and Heath Bar crunch, throughout the Northeast, from Maine to Maryland, and to selected stores in Indiana, Tennessee and Colorado. Sales in the first half of 1985 reached $3.6 million, twice the pace of last year...
...were doing in school, but there would be a point when he would get launched, and we would try to launch him. There were two different house-burning stories. I worked in a little bit of one in the book, the one where Great Grandpa came back from the Colorado gold flelds, is the legend, and the gold dust was all lost in the blaze...
Elsewhere, the rewards can involve intricate calculations. The Colorado-based Adolph Coors Co. will pay 90% rather than 85% of the medical bills of employees who fill out a 105-item questionnaire. Along with the standard medical inquiries, the form asks about such stressful experiences as divorce and job changes, even whether the employee carries a gun. Based on the responses, workers are assigned a "health age." If it is more than two years above their actual age, they have three years to shape up or lose the extra 5% reimbursement. In Bellevue, Wash., city workers gain "points" according...
...Column, an electronic tattle sheet that reports on the real-life romances of couples who meet on the network. For example, two people whose "handles" on CompuServe were Angel and Malaprop were married last September in a California ceremony filled with "flowers, balloons and water pistols." At the Old Colorado City Electronic Cottage, a bulletin board in Colorado Springs, Colo., used by 8,500 buffs, Proprietor David Hughes does a sort of man-on-the-street reporting he calls "saloon journalism." Operating out of a local bistro with a portable PC, he lobbies against the growing legislative threats...