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...THERE you follow Sixth Avenue out of Denver to Interstate 70, wind through Mount Vernon Canyon and up Floyd Hill, where the VWs wheeze up the steep grade, through Idaho Springs and Empire, then right at the fork onto U.S. 40. Forty takes you over the Continental Divide through Berthoud Pass at 11,300 feet, and from the summit of the pass it is just a matter of not doing anything stupid on the hairpin turns that slither down the mountainside like a resting rattlesnake...
...After passing an endurance test, he took a written exam on first aid and ski patrol regulations, and passed with the second highest score. This qualified him for the skiing test: Jim had to demonstrate every technique of skiing, from stem christie to parallel to snowplow on a very steep slope, and ski every kind of snow--packed, powder, ice and crud--at high speed. He passed the skiing test with a low score, but not too low. Of the 65 people to tried to join, Jim's total score placed...
...flying out of there like you wouldn't believe. They had about a hundred yards to spare, but there was this bridge they had to cross just outside of the tunnel portal, and they didn't have time to get across that. They had to go right down a steep embankment, which went underneath the bridge at about a 60-degree slope. None of them got hurt or anything, but it was pretty hairy...
...guzzler tax An important conservation measure in the Carter plan was his call for steep taxes by 1985 on cars that get fewer than 27.5 m.p.g. The tax was to run as high as $2,488 for the worst guzzlers, and there would be rebates for fuel-efficient cars. The House lowered the mileage target to 23.5 m.p.g., but hiked the tax to a maximum of $3,856. The Senate scrapped the whole approach, and chose instead to write in a complete ban by 1985 on cars that get fewer than 21 m.p.g. The two minicommittees have yet to choose...
...incentives for coal use to force industries to change from oil and natural gas heating to coal, Carter proposed steep taxes for companies that do not change over. To help companies make the change, he proposed a 10% tax credit for the purchase of new equipment. The House wrote in a number of exemptions to the tax while at the same time adopting the credits. The Senate added so many more exemptions that much of industry would be excluded. At the same time, it increased the changeover credits to 25%. The conference committee decided on a middle course, leaving...