Word: mont
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once by bragging about the money he is saving and again by preening at the perfection of his environmental posture. Heating oil, for the moment, costs less per gallon than bottled no-lead spring water. Never mind economy, however. There are congested localities such as Aspen, Colo., and Missoula, Mont., where wood burning is immoral, toxically wasteful and severely curtailed. The sweet-smelling, picturesque blue-gray smoke rising from Grandma's condo on a crisp December morning simply loads the air with too much additional junk...
...Robert Maxwell is a whirling dervish whose hyperkinetic activity seems designed to distract and confuse. In seconds, he can switch from a jaunty Brit to a ruthless schoolyard bully and back again. He is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Yet despite the colossal Mont Blanc gold pen he wields | like a fat cigar, the enormously expensive Lord & Stewart suit, the butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell...
...century the inhabitants of tiny St. Ignatius, Mont. (pop. 1,000), had a hardscrabble little hospital to tend their more serious wounds and ailments. Then five years ago, the 18-bed Mission Valley Hospital ran into trouble. Spiraling medical costs and difficulty attracting doctors were partly to blame. But the real crunch was that, with new limits on reimbursements, Medicare no longer paid what it cost to treat the hospital's mostly elderly patients...
...question of priorities," Bradley argued. But Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., manager of the tax bill, said it makes no sense to "spend money on a bill that this body has not yet seen...
...village not far from the Old Faithful Inn, destroying more than a dozen buildings. The fires have ruined 1.2 million acres of Yellowstone and adjoining national forests. As high winds threatened to pick up again at week's end, residents of nearby Silver Gate and Cooke City, Mont., were evacuated. Montana Governor Ted Schwinden banned hiking, fishing and camping in his state and postponed hunting season for the first time ever...