Word: dakota
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Nobody knows for certain how much this is costing the nation. Economist Arlen Leholm of North Dakota State University ventures that his state alone will lose $2.7 billion in crops, lower federal farm subsidies and reduced farm spending. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service's William Fecke estimates that in Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas the precious topsoil of 750,000 acres of farm and grazing land has been blown away by the angry wind, an additional 7 million acres is damaged and 12 million more threatened. "If the wind keeps up," Fecke says, "we may see chunks of the Northern...
...West the water shortage is not just a freak of nature. Los Angeles receives 9 in. of rainfall a year and Phoenix only 8, vs. 40 in. of precipitation for Chicago. Almost all the U.S. flatlands west of the 100th meridian, which runs from Texas to North Dakota, consistently receive too little precipitation to sustain agriculture without irrigation. Says Dennis Mahr, a Southern California water manager: "We're in a constant state of drought, and we've learned to live with...
...this week, when Californians endorsed the tax- slashing Proposition 13 and triggered a national tax revolt. Pollster Mervin Field has found that while opinion still runs against any general tax increase, 7 out of 10 Californians would support higher taxes for specific programs -- even efforts for the homeless. South Dakota's former Republican Governor William Janklow, a populist proponent of earmarking, explains, "People know that if they just trust the money to government, it's going to suck it up like an amoeba, leaving them nothing to show for it. So now people are saying, 'It's our money...
Dole's enduring regional popularity aside, Bush's relatively low vote total seemed further evidence of the difficulty he might face in farm states in the fall campaign. The vice president lost races in Iowa, South Dakota and Minnesota before routing the field to clinch the nomination...
...pick them. But Gephardt, now planning to run for re- election to the House, wanted to reward home-state supporters with convention seats. So he called Jackson and asked for the right to name Missouri's at- large delegates in return for helping Jackson with delegate slates in South Dakota and Texas. Jackson magnanimously agreed, and Gephardt announced his withdrawal the next day. After fighting back tears throughout his statement, he adjourned to a small room with family and friends, where he broke down and cried...