Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congratulations on presenting a glimpse of the darker side of the exploitation of the Rocky Mountain high [Dec. 15]. Too many folks out here have the blindly optimistic notion that all this "progress" is a wonderful thing. Actually we are exchanging our wilderness, our water, our heritage and our very special way of life for a bunch of money that is bound to dry up when our minerals give out. Not much of a bargain, in my eyes...
...King James version of the Bible is good enough for me without any de-sexing [Dec. 8], but it looks as though feminist nitpickers are going to keep sending Moses back up the mountain for those tab lets until he finally gets it right! God must be shaking his head wondering if Eve was such a good idea...
...felt the slump. Investors who would not touch a steel stock to buy new issues of Genentech, a Francisco-based genetic engineering or Apple Computer, the California maker of personal computers. Unemployment in Massachusetts was only 5%, or one-third less than the national level. Colorado and other Rocky Mountain prospered with the search for new domestic energy sources. Electronic and computer firms made the Southwest and West the U.S.'s most prosperous According to the 1980 census, that contains nine of the twelve fastest growing states...
...nation already has a burdensome mountain of nearly $305 billion in consumer debt, but the growth has slowed sharply. In September consumers increased their borrowing by only $1.5 billion, or about one-third the rate of the same period a year...
Campanati also finds time to draw blueprints for the ecumenical reform of the church and deliver lectures in basic apologetics to the wayward Toomey. Ideas about good and evil, the spirit and the flesh, are regularly set forth. But Earthly Powers is no Magic Mountain. Having to cover much ground quickly, Burgess shaves his peaks...