Word: sprawls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lamm's victory would not have been possible without a dramatic change in the state's electorate. Over the past few years, Colorado has been invaded by Easterners and Westerners alike, anxious to escape urban blight and sprawl, and, ironically, more concerned than the natives to protect their state's natural beauties. For them, the environment is the overriding issue. A rather traditional booster who looked forward to Colorado's becoming the "energy capital of the world," Vanderhoof, 52, did not get the voters' message until fairly late in the campaign. Then he joined Lamm...
...environmental concern, it is common knowledge that the use of land makes sense. But does pay? In many ways, yes, says a 278-page federal report released week. The study, first of its kind, compares the costs to society of three kinds of land use: 1) allowing communities to sprawl haphazardly across landscape, 2) erecting planned density housing clusters, and 3) mixtures of both. In all cases, the economic environmental costs are lowest for high-density developments...
Entitled The Costs of Sprawl, the report measures the costs of putting 10,000 dwelling units plus schools and public buildings on 6,000 acres of suburban land. Clustering the development rather than letting it spread would...
Pushing Money. As he campaigns from campuses in Northern California to the urban sprawl of Southern California, Jerry Brown exemplifies a great number of the trends that are so evident hi 1974. He vigorously condemns Republicans and Republicanism, which, he claims, is "a philosophy of favoritism for the few and sacrifice for the many." But Brown is no ideologue, and often he adopts traditional conservative positions...
...food and decor at McDonald's, for example, with Ihe assertion that "the function of the fast-food business ... is quite simple: Women's Liberation." That is, it frees Mom from shopping, cooking and washing up, so don't complain. In the same vein, "suburban sprawl is a pejorative phrase that describes perhaps the most comfortable mass residential living conditions in history...