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...raising a political storm; in the West, the disposition of the enormous amounts of coal that lie under federal land is an emotional issue. Ironically, though, when Watt last week put up for sale the rights to mine land containing 543 million tons of coal, primarily in North Dakota, he received bids covering only 115 million tons...
...campaign manager, no full-time fund raisers, no party encouragement, no state organizations, and a wife who says she will not stump for him. He lost the 1972 general election by the largest plurality in history. In 1980, South Dakota voters ousted him from the Senate after 18 years of service. But George McGovern, 61, the outspoken prairie populist and critic of the Viet Nam War, is running for President-again. Said he after announcing his candidacy at a press conference last week: "I think I've got a real shot at the nomination...
Nine states, all east of the Mississippi River except South Dakota, look to be smaller in the year 2000: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York on the East Coast and, toward the industrial Great Lakes, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois...
...boom is bigger, however, than just one bank. In the past decade the state's population increased by just 25,000 (to 690,000), but the number of nonagricultural jobs has grown by 60,000. South Dakota ranked third in the nation in per capita income growth...
...specific invitation to an eager Citibank to relocate its credit-card computers. Financial institutions in Michigan and neighboring Nebraska have asked if they can transfer their credit-card operations too. Last spring Janklow persuaded the legislature to agree in effect that all is laissez-faire in economic war: South Dakota was the first state to make it easy for banks to buy insurance companies and thus expand their consumer services. The Governor mailed engraved announcements of the deregulation to the 100 largest U.S. banks. Last month Citicorp won the state banking commission's permission to buy a state-chartered...