Word: staton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just keeping up with the deterioration of the highways will cost $2.4 billion in 1985, according to Staton, but a 1980 study showed that a least 30,000 miles of the system would have to be rehabilitated during this decade. Rehabilitation, of course, can mean anything from simple resurfacing to wholesale rebuilding--where resurfacing runs about $500,000 per mile and rebuilding anywhere from $5 million a mile in uncluttered rural areas to an "unlimited sum" for urban environs, Staron says...
...West Virginia, socially conservative Charlestonians and coal miners in 1980 elected to Congress Republican Mick Staton, who had won local fame by leading a fight to remove textbooks that he considered unpatriotic or too sexually explicit from Kanawha County public schools. Campaigning for reelection, Staton told constituents this year that he felt he had been "raised up by God" to lead them. The voters disagreed; heavy unemployment reminded them of their traditional economic liberalism. They elected Democrat Bob Wise, a populist lawyer and state senator...