Word: utah
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...that same spirit, the Senate's most critical Republicans, including North Carolina's Jesse Helms, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Utah's Orrin Hatch, flew to the Canal Zone aboard an Air Force plane to listen to the complaints of Americans living there. No sooner did they leave, having ingested what one American businessman in Panama called "an overdose of fuel for their case," than Mississippi's Senator James Eastland arrived for more of the same. At week's end, some 2,000 American Zonians, mainly employees of the Panama Canal Company...
...vast tundras of Alaska and in the timberlands and national parks of California, Oregon, Arizona and Utah, forest fires have devoured huge swaths of magnificent territory. Most of the blazes have been started by heat lightning, and many are still out of control. Alaska has lost 1.6 million acres, or 2,500 sq. mi., in the worst destruction since 1971. California, the most scorched after Alaska, has lost more than 288,000 acres, despite the deployment of 10,000 fire fighters...
...legal hazard that could destroy it: Congress has enacted a law that bars the use of federal welfare funds as salaries, and the U.S. Government matches the state's $11 million contribution for jobless fathers of needy families. Dukakis' aides have discovered, however, that authorities in Utah have been getting around this problem for three years with a "work experience and training project." The Utah plan, covering approximately 475 welfare recipients at a time, pays no wages as such. But it does provide transportation and other minimal expenses for three days a week of "on-the-job training...
Anne L. Armstrong, LL.D, former Ambassador to Great Britain. Robert Redford, L.H.D., actor. Owner of a solar-powered home in Utah, you come to this campus for recognition as a powerful spokesman for environmental protection. David Riesman, Litt.D., educator and social scientist...
...roars out of the desert like some mustang of the legendary West - but it is no horse, only modern horse power gone loco. Driverless, with a diabolical will of its own, it invades a Utah town and mows down a bicycling couple, the sheriff and a passel of deputies and a pert young teacher. Among the other victims: plot, dialogue and characterization. Deputy Sheriff James Brolin leads the counterattack, but it is an unequal contest: the car steals all the scenes. The ancient nightmare of machines turning against their masters has in recent years become something of a staple...