Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back during an afternoon poker game in the Saloon Number 10 a century ago, gambling became a part of the rugged Wild West image prized by Deadwood, S. Dak. But in the 1960s the tiny town (pop. 1,900) nestled in the Black Hills outlawed gambling. And when the town's four brothels were shut down as public nuisances by a posse of federal, state and local law-enforcement personnel in 1980, Deadwood's tourist trade began to fade. "When we had open gambling here, when we had the cathouses...
...lower. It can't get any better for the customer," said Bennett Bidwell, head of Chrysler's motor division. Last week the automaker began offering two-year car loans carrying the lowest rate possible: 0%. That attention-getting number was part of Chrysler's response to incentives launched a few days earlier by Ford and General Motors...
...million more birds will show up at the end of their springtime migration. In addition, there are deer, which graze on kelp deposited along the beaches, and brown bears, just now coming out of hibernation and ready to scavenge on the shore. How many will die depends in part on whether winds and storms blow the bulk of the spill onto the shore or keep the oil afloat until it can disperse...
...companies should not be trusted to do this on their own. Immediately after the Exxon Valdez incident, senate President Kelly began to draw up plans for what he calls a Spill Response Corps, to be organized by the state but paid for by the oil companies "as part of the cost of doing business here." And Governor Cowper insisted on a credible plan by the Alyeska consortium, which runs the pipeline, to deal with spills: "There's going to have to be a plan that satisfies our specialists. And if it is not complied with, we don't have...
...finding more oil is not the answer to energy needs; a coherent policy encouraging fuel conservation is. The pressure to drill more wells in Alaska stems in large part from the recent relapse into energy profligacy. During the Reagan years, speed limits rose, more stringent fuel-efficiency standards for new cars were postponed, and alternative-energy research programs were slashed. As a result, the U.S. appetite for oil rose from 5.6 billion bbl. in 1983 to 6.3 billion last year...