Word: montana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mortal enemy of the $70 billion American livestock business is the wild coyote. Ranchers claim that last year alone predators-mostly coyotes-marauding from Montana to Texas devoured stray livestock worth $200 million. They have tried fencing off their land, trapping the animals and even shooting them from low-flying airplanes. But ranchers argue these methods always proved unrealistic, inefficient or too expensive. The most effective means of controlling the predators was to scatter animal carcasses laced with a strong poison across pastureland...
...spend a lot of money to try to deal with the problem-let them. The Reagan defense spending programs will really begin to bite into domestic programs twelve to 18 months from now. Congressmen hearing neutralist noises from Europe could well revive something like the Mansfield Amendment, the Montana Senator's annual proposal, back in the 1960s, for reduction of U.S. forces in Europe...
...another 6-3 ruling, the Justices found that Montana's 30% tax on coal, the highest such levy in the nation, was not an unacceptable burden on interstate commerce, even though most of it is shipped out of the state, and therefore was valid. After the decision, residents of energy-poor regions said they would urge Congress to establish a ceiling for such taxes...
...scrapped because of spaced-out musicians, and of movie shoots that are disrupted because members of the cast or crew are under the influence. According to a member of the Heaven's Gate crew, thousands of dollars' worth of coke was being sent up to the Montana location from Hollywood regularly from July to November...
...that if he ever managed to make a film biography of the Indian leader, he wanted her to play the part of the star photojournalism Bourke-White captured in the pages of FORTUNE the gritty, yet poetic texture of industrial America in the 1930s, and her shot of Montana's Fort Peck Dam graced the first cover of LIFE. Bergen took to the shutter when her film career faltered, and in 1972 also made the cover of LIFE with her portrait of Comedian Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona. Still, it will take all of Bergen's technique...