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...becoming the "energy capital of the world," Vanderhoof, 52, did not get the voters' message until fairly late in the campaign. Then he joined Lamm, 39, in opposing a ski-run development and further nuclear blasting on the Rockies' western slopes in an effort to extract natural gas. But Lamm, a leader of the successful drive to keep the Winter Olympics out of the state, had already made the environmental issue his own. "I have a compass in my head, and Vanderhoof has a very fine scale," says Lamm. "Generally the scales win in politics, but not here...
...billion tons. The growth would occur, as the bill now stands, in regions where the land can be reclaimed after surface mining: mainly the Midwest and Appalachia. Reclaiming the arid stretches of the West would be more difficult. In the meantime, underground mining, which is the only way to extract most of the nation's 1.3 trillion tons of coal, should be expanded by using advanced technology: machines that continuously bore or shave seams and greatly increase production...
...Solution reunites Holmes with the fine nose of the hound Toby, but the scent they are following is not the foul musk of creosote, that criminal excrescence from The Sign of the Four, but the rather innocuous odor of a man who is steeped to the ankles in vanilla extract. This may be a fine touch for the Sherlockian satirist--and there have been plenty of them--but it hardly befits the genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson, and a flair for titles...
Whether or not the Bundy announcement was a ploy to extract concessions from Washington, a small one came quickly. The House Ways and Means Committee voted to reduce, from 6% of assets to 4%, the amount that foundations must pay out annually in grants if their assets fall below a certain amount. Another committee motion, to reduce the excise tax that foundations pay on earnings, was narrowly defeated but will probably be brought up again. More important, the Bundy action can be construed as a blunt message to Washington: do something about the falling stock market and the inflation that...
...same information months earlier because it had access to another of the burglars, Frank Sturgis. Recalls Publisher William Attwood: "He was ready to talk if we had pushed him and if we had come up with money in five figures." Attwood now regrets keenly that his paper did not extract more information from Sturgis...