Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Terrel H. Bell, 54, had a problem familiar to many Americans: even with a handsome salary ($37,800), he was not going to be able to put all his children through college. Bell's eldest son will enter the University of Utah in September (room, board and tuition: $2,700); two other sons will soon follow...
...wilderness of wind-carved rock, southern Utah's desolate Kaiparowits* Plateau is one of the most unspoiled places in the U.S. Now it seems likely to stay that way. For nearly 14 years a consortium of Western power companies has been seeking-over objections by environmentalists-to build a huge coal-fired plant on the plateau. Last week its campaign failed when two of the firms-Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric-informed Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe that they were dropping, for the time being, their plans to build the plant...
...expensive defeat for the companies, which have sunk $22 million into promoting, researching and engineering the $3.5 billion installation. In the planning stage since 1962, the plant would have exploited the vast deposits of low-sulfur coal in southern Utah and, when fully operational, generated 3 million kilowatts for customers in Arizona and Southern California-enough power to meet the needs of some 3 million people. The project's demise is also a blow to the economy of Utah, which had envisioned the creation near the plant of a town of up to 15,000, additional payrolls...
...attendants brusquely shooed away curious hotel workers and loaded the man into an ambulance that sped to the airport. There the patient was placed in a waiting Gates Learjet ambulance plane from Miami. Before landing in Acapulco earlier that day, it had fetched from the Bahamas a vacationing Utah physician, Wilbur Thain, who was one of the patient's three private doctors. Pilot Roger Sutton was alarmed by the ailing passenger's condition. "He looked very emaciated, a pasty color," he recalls. "When they put him on the plane, he moved his lips, but I could not hear...
Harvey, who described the host team as "sort of physically intimidating," was pitted in a tactical battle with opposition coach Tom Nissalke, a former coach of the Utah Stars and currently a scout for the Milwaukee Bucks...