Word: montana
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...conditions that can make jury duty so frustrating vary from place to place. Citizens are on call for as long as a year in rural areas of Wisconsin and most of Montana; daily pay can range from $45 a day in Kewaunee County, Wis., to $5 in civil cases in San Francisco, where nothing at all is paid to those who wait. Tensions inside the jury room can be painful, particularly if the jurors are sequestered at night. But the most common complaints are boredom and a sense of futility. Many are called and few chosen. Even those...
During a 1974 expedition to the Badlands of Montana, Jenkins discovered a nearly complete fossil skeleton then believed to be the oldest mammal specimen in North America...
...racing as a waste of gasoline. Might as well drive off the interstate to search for authentic small-town restaurants, instead of stopping at McDonalds. Might as well laugh at the literalists and the fundamentalists and the millenialists and all those people who are storing canned goods in Montana caves. Might as well just stand up and announce. "I'm better than--or at least I'm different from--(which of course means the same thing) huge stretches of what might be called Middle America." Because, to a sizeable and representative body of people who do not write music reviews...
...gross value of its mineral exports in 1846, and 33 other states now impose such levies. But as fuel prices have soared, energy-rich states have increased their tariffs. Alaska, for instance, raised its oil tax from 12% to 15% last June. That was reasonable compared with Montana and Wyoming, which are exacting 30% and 17%, respectively, on coal exports. All told, coal, gas and oil severance-tax collections have ballooned from $2.1 billion in 1977 to $4 billion last year. Says Governor Brendan Byrne of New Jersey: "It is potentially the largest transfer of wealth in the history...
...need the money to cover the environmental and social costs of extracting natural resources. They point to the new roads, schools and sewer systems needed by burgeoning energy towns, and to the sad example of those Appalachian states that remained impoverished while shipping their coal elsewhere. Severance taxes, says Montana Governor Ted Schwinden, help prevent "the mistakes of the past, cover the costs of today, and leave us something when all the coal is gone...