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Voters in Jefferson County, Colo., the nation's fifth fastest-growing county, approved a 1�% sales tax to be used solely for the purchase and maintenance of open space. The unique measure is expected to raise about $2,000,000 annually for wildlife habitats, parks and recreational facilities. But the issue that kindled high passion across the rest of the state was that of the 1976 Winter Olympics. Governor John Love had waged a crusade to bring the Games to Denver and won the bid from the International Olympic Committee. To his extreme embarrassment, Coloradans voted...
Garbage collection is hardly an enterprise that conjures up images of manicured executives, complex mergers and multimillion-dollar revenues. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. One reason for the rise is simply more garbage?the result of an expanding and increasingly affluent population. Further, as environmental concerns multiply and sanitation laws become tougher, there is greater demand for companies that offer modern processing, disposal and recycling techniques...
...Waste Management, Inc. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., W.M.I, this year acquired 50 companies in 16 states and Canada, making it the fastest-grow-ing garbage concern in the country. Its revenues reached $51 million in 1972's first nine months. In Pompano Beach, Fla., the company operates an advanced processing plant in which garbage is ground into odor-free shreds and sent by conveyor belt to a nearby landfill...
...have made habitual. The officials mistake the impoverish Khlestakov for the Inspector General, and he is wined, dined, and "lost" money (the officials leading it think that they are bribing him to ignore their corruption). When he decides he must leave temporarily, he is given the best coach and fastest horses in town...
TEXAS IS NO longer a windswept table-top populated by cowboys and a few thousand chicanos. It now boasts two of the nation's fastest growing urban areas, the NASA Manned Space Craft Center, the Astrodome, and, of course, all those oil companies. It has a burgeoning population of over 11 million, 13 per cent black, and 15 per cent chicano. And, with 26 electoral votes. Texas ranks fourth among the season's top political prizes...