Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some have said they thought the new president should be a scholar who would actively engage in undergraduate life, other Radcliffe affiliates have said that fundraising ability should be the new president's main qualification. Many also stressed the importance of picking a president known for speaking out on women's issues...
...milk buyers would be well advised to ignore that scare tactic. Unless BST is shown to pose a health hazard to cows or humans, the main question will be one of economics and politics: Should the financial interests of dairy farmers be put above the right of consumers to have lower milk prices...
...then Interior Secretary Donald Hodel. The resulting report was a muddled exercise in self- contradiction. Its authors confirmed that the ecological results of natural burning are good. But the report contended that "in some cases the social and economic effects ((of natural fires)) may be unacceptable." Translation: the main problem with the fires was not what they did to plant and animal life but what they did to the tourist business...
Romer, Pena and other boosters decried the frequent and long delays that have already become legendary at Stapleton, a point seconded by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner on a visit during the campaign. The field's two main runways are too close together for simultaneous instrument landings; in bad weather only one can be used. Airport planners contend that a new field could be financed without any tax money. They expect to receive $500 million from Washington and to raise the rest by selling bonds that would be redeemed by fees charged to airlines and concessionaires...
...would fork over anything like $500 million. (Skinner promised that "the Federal Government is going to help in a very substantial way," but he studiously avoided being pinned down to a figure.) Thus, they insisted, the project would force tax increases that Denver residents could not afford. The two main airlines servicing Denver, United and Continental, point out that Stapleton still has 25 unused gates; some expansion of runway capacity, they argued, was all that was needed. But the vote made it obvious that few citizens listened. It is only in the nation's booming Seattles, it seems, that residents...