Word: montana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revenue in the package would come from tax increases (chiefly on cigarettes, telephone bills and airline tickets). The rest would come from closing tax loopholes and getting payment from tax evaders, mainly by withholding taxes on their interest and stock dividends. It was true, as he said in Montana, that "the tax bill . . . will not raise income taxes on the average American." If the bill does not pass, Reagan warned the balky Congressmen, the deficit would soar, and interest rates might reach "16% in November"-when all House members face reelection. That might be rough for them, but it would...
...most spectacular stretches of California's rugged coastline? Just such a property is going on the block. A piece of prime bottom land in the Midwest? The Government is prepared to part with several hundred acres worth. Looking for privacy? Uncle Sam is offering mountaintops and ranger stations in Montana and New Hampshire...
...bountiful, but not bottomless well soon may be tapped. Texans are talking of pumping water from the Mississippi River, which draws much of its volume out of the states in the Great Lakes watershed. Coal mining interests in Montana have approached Wisconsin for access to Lake Superior. They want to pipe water to the Montana coalfields, where it would be mixed with crushed coal to form a mudlike slurry that would in turn be fed to other parts of the country. uch schemes are not pipe dreams: South Dakota earlier this year agreed to sell 50,000 acre...
...states and two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec) listened to some telling statistics from University of Michigan Civil Engineering Professor Jonathan Bulkeley. He pointed out that even a relatively small diversion from the Great Lakes, say 10,000 cu. ft. per sec.-about the volume of water sought by Montana from Lake Superior-would lower water levels enough throughout the interlocking system to cause the loss of $35 million in navigation revenue and $80 million in electrical generating ability...
Readers of Red Smith feel a similar ache when the newspaper slaps down on the doorstep. They remember him as a friend. Taking a sauna in Helsinki, pub crawling in Melbourne, trout fishing in Montana (where he comes across a baby eagle "as big as Bobby Ussery, with a Durante nose"), he is gentle, funny and wise...