Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Provo canyon, Utah, raw land near the Sundance ski resort fetched $3,750 an acre in 1966. Today it goes for as much as $13,000-even though zoning restrictions prevent some buyers from building anything...
Colorado, 50 miles north of Denver $1,000-$2,000 per acre Utah, Sanpete County Up to $1,000 per acre New Mexico, at foot Sandia Mountain $5,000 per acre Missouri, 150 miles southwest of St. Louis $150-$200 per acre Missouri, north central $500 per acre Illinois, west of Fox River $3,000-plus per acre Northern Michigan $250-$300 per acre Alabama, 30 miles from Montgomery $150-$400 per acre
...only the traditional rights of landowners but also the power of local governments. As a result, home rule-the right of local governments to determine their fate without outside interference-has become the banner under which opponents of planning rally. The issue is at the heart of controversies from Utah, where rural counties do not want to be told by the state how to deal with their land, to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where islanders are hotly debating whether to accept the Federal Government's jurisdiction over their development...
...computers, which last year printed out a net loss of $13 million and has earned a total of only $7,000,000 in the best (1971) of its ten years in existence. Presiding over the trial was a 68-year-old federal judge who came out of semiretirement in Utah to decide one of the most complex antitrust cases ever and who backed up his instructions to the opposing computer-firm attorneys by quoting Poet Robert Frost to them...
Peterson said that the availability of housing close to the Harvard campus influenced his decision to come to the University. He said that the scale "may have been tipped toward inertia" had no house been available, and that he might have continued teaching in Utah...