Word: lamm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Modernistic electronics plants sprout alongside gleaming shopping malls and clusters of ranch houses. The new pioneers keep streaming in-young parents in station wagons, roustabouts in pickup trucks, elderly couples in trailers-to work and live among these mountains and deserts that Daniel Webster scorned. Says Colorado Governor Richard Lamm: "There is no hyperbole that can do justice to how fast the West is changing. We are seeing a decade of change take place every month. We have everything coming...
Struggling with federal regulations sharpens the resentment of Westerners who remember how the region was once exploited by Eastern railroads and financiers. "Billions of dollars came out of here, and none of the money remained," says Colorado's Lamm. "Can you blame us for feeling like a colony?" Says Montana Governor Thomas Judge: "They want to take our coal and take our water, and what do we have left? A couple of national parks...
...Earth. "The politics has changed from two years ago when we could say no, no, no. That is not going to happen any more. Now we are interested in moderating the velocity of development and preserving the freedom of choice on energy sources for the future." Governor Lamm agrees: "In these explorations, the question is no longer...
...equally difficult but opposite problems. While many small towns are frantically trying to get more industry or keep what they have, others are groaning under the problem of providing services for the additional people who come in with new industry. Just recently, Colorado's Governor Richard D. Lamm complained that the energy boom was bringing some of his small towns more prosperity than they could afford. Wrote Lamm: "Craig, Rifle, Meeker-towns that have existed on a stable agricultural base for 100 years-are doubling every two years, every three years. With that growth comes every social pathology; when...
Among others calling for an open convention is Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, an early and vociferous Carter critic who was expected to urge other Democratic Governors to back a free vote at a meeting in Denver over the weekend. Governors Hugh Carey of New York, Joe Brennan of Maine, Tom Judge of Montana and Arthur Link of North Dakota have announced an anti-Carter position on the rule. So too have Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington, J. James Exon of Nebraska and Don Riegle of Michigan. The Pennsylvania delegation, which backs Kennedy narrowly, 94 to 91, is overwhelmingly in favor...