Word: governors
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...bedrock" of opportunity for women and minorities. It was also reported that during an hour-long phone call, Betty Ford had persuaded a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Republican Harold Sawyer of Michigan, not to block the bill. Led by Helen Milliken, wife of Michigan's Governor, a group of ERA supporters later met with Sawyer to congratulate him on his decision...
...fight the pests, Governor J. James Exon declared Nebraska a disaster area and made $500,000 in state funds available for spraying. The Colorado legislature, called into special session last week by Governor Richard D. Lamm, voted $2 million for emergency treatment of fields...
Protesters staging mass demonstrations against a nuclear plant in a New Hampshire town. Conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson and his state troopers arresting some 1,500 of them. Power company officials warning that in the end the public will suffer by paying unnecessarily high electricity rates...
...anti-nuclear forces, particularly their noisiest wing, the Clamshell Alliance. The alliance has mustered up to 18,000 protesters in four demonstrations at the site, and a Clamshell spokesman proclaimed the stop-work order to be "the beginning of the end of nuclear power in this country." Governor Thomson termed the decision "asinine...
...despite all the noise they have made, neither the Governor nor the Clamshellers have actually influenced the stop-and-go course of construction at the site. Surprisingly, both sides agree on the villains' identity: bungling federal bureaucracies whose errors and capriciousness have kept key issues from being resolved. Says Carl Goldstein, a spokesman for the pro-plant Atomic Industrial Forum: "It is horrendous what Seabrook shows about the regulatory process." Agrees Tony Roisman, an opposing lawyer: "You can't regulate this...