Word: montana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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September 19, 1980. 38-year-old Dave McNally, part-owner and manager of D&T Volkswagen, Billings, Montana, picked up a newspaper and discovered the Orioles had beaten Detroit, 9-3, the night before. An Oriole fan, he has not seen them play this year. "They don't come by here too often," he laughs...
Bradshaw, an auto-parts-company millionaire and former city councilman, is the candidate of Eddie Chiles, 70, a colorful self-made oil baron and major stockholder in the Texas Rangers baseball team. Chiles has achieved notoriety by sponsoring "I'm mad" TV ads from New Mexico to Montana that assail Government bureaucracy and liberalism. Chiles once supported Wright, but now says of him: "Jim Wright is a socialist. We had a parting of ways. One day I told him I was going to beat him and get him out of Congress." Responds Wright: "Maybe he feels...
...Western Overthrust Belt, a geological formation of petroleum- and gas-bearing rock running from Canada to Mexico. Other new drilling in the mainland U.S. is under way in the Tuscaloosa Trend of Louisiana, the Permian Basin of West Texas, the Williston Basin of North and South Dakota and Montana, and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico...
Detroit's current troubles, therefore, have sent tremors through other vital sectors of the U.S. economy. Akron rubber workers, faced with layoffs like those in the auto industry, are accepting extraordinary reductions in their wage contracts, a development seldom known since the Depression. Even 200 Montana miners have lost their jobs because the low-sulfur coal they were digging is no longer needed to power Detroit's auto plants. Textile workers in North Carolina are out of work because demand has ebbed for the carpeting that they make for car interiors. In all, declining auto sales have cost...
...open convention is Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, an early and vociferous Carter critic who was expected to urge other Democratic Governors to back a free vote at a meeting in Denver over the weekend. Governors Hugh Carey of New York, Joe Brennan of Maine, Tom Judge of Montana and Arthur Link of North Dakota have announced an anti-Carter position on the rule. So too have Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington, J. James Exon of Nebraska and Don Riegle of Michigan. The Pennsylvania delegation, which backs Kennedy narrowly, 94 to 91, is overwhelmingly in favor of the open rule...