Word: utah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great machines are now crawling over new fields in Arizona and North Dakota, gouging up the mineral mainly to fuel new power generating plants. Reclamation efforts are officially described as "behind schedule." More huge reserves will be tapped in Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Even the landowners who stand to gain the most from sale of their property fear the result: 42,000 sq. mi. of land-an area larger than Ohio-might be turned into a sterile wasteland...
...Warren Hearnes put together a cocktail party for Edmund Muskie. But even presidential politics could not keep the Governors from their preoccupation with finding a means to have the Federal Government relieve financial pressures on their home states. "It's like sex in a barracks bull session," explained Utah's Democratic Governor Calvin Rampton. "Whatever we started out talking about, we ended up talking about revenue sharing. It's foremost in everybody's mind." It was plain, too, that Nixon has not won the support he wants from the men he expected would back him most...
...familiar with that many specialties. The only staff help the legislature gets is from four elderly women who run a legislative reference service. No legislator has an office; much of the business is transacted in the corridors or the cafeteria. Other states that provide no office space: Iowa, Ohio, Utah and Indiana...
Legislatures are also hamstrung in other ways through no fault of their own. In 33 states they cannot call themselves into special session when the need arises, but are dependent upon Governors, who often can limit the agenda. In Utah, the state supreme court has ruled that the legislature does not even exist for legal purposes except when it is sitting-nor does it have the power to hire any attorneys...
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