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...which authorities said weighed several tons and measured 17 feet across and 6 feet high, struck the Gray Line tour bus just before 11 a.m. as it neared the foot of the heavily traveled 11,314-foothigh Berthoud Pass on U.S. 40. The accident site is about 60 miles northwest of Denver...
...waterfront property have been lost or damaged due to record-high water levels in recent years. Some 86% of California's 1,100 miles of exposed Pacific shoreline is receding at an average rate of between 6 in. and 2 ft. a year (the cover photo shows the coast northwest of Santa Barbara). Monterey Bay, south of San Francisco, loses as much as 5 ft. to 15 ft. annually. Cape Shoalwater, Wash., about 70 miles west of Olympia, has been eroding at the rate of more than 100 ft. a year since the turn of the century; its sparsely settled...
...colleague Jim Sipp of Rexburg, Idaho (pop. 12,084), often dodges feisty farm dogs as he hikes across sprawling potato fields to meet with customers. Meanwhile, Jim Bashor of Anacortes, Wash. (pop. 10,060), spends a good deal of time riding ferries off the Northwest coast to catch up with the salmon fishermen he hopes will buy stocks and bonds from...
Some think that compromise came only because the weather finally relented. After weeks of broiling heat, a breeze blew from the northwest on Friday, July 13. That weekend the delegates could get some sleep. Monday the 16th was cool. The Connecticut compromise offered by Sherman a month earlier began to seem eminently reasonable. So a somewhat amended version was agreed...
...have about 81% and are expected to get 90% by 1990. Large combined airlines command so much market share at some airports that the carriers may be tempted to raise prices with virtual impunity. At least three carriers control more than 80% of the business in their main hubs: Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis, TWA in St. Louis and USAir in Pittsburgh...