Word: vermonter
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Under this new bottom-up pressure, states and cities have led the way in setting more stringent rules for pollution control. While Washington is formally committed to only a 50% reduction in CFC production by the end of the century, governments from the state of Vermont to the city of Irvine, Calif., have moved toward a complete prohibition. And this November, in the best illustration of the power of kitchen ecologists, Californians will have a chance to vote on the most ambitious environmental package of any state in the country -- a ballot initiative that aims at nothing less than protecting...
...latest dropout is Democrat Madeleine Kunin of Vermont, who announced last week that she will not seek a fourth term. She has been forced to cut ; social programs and propose a 3% income tax hike. Kunin blames Washington for "telling the American public they can have it both ways: no tax increases and increased social services. Unfortunately, Governors can't play by these rules...
That reluctance to change has been traumatic for the fraternities at Vermont's Middlebury College. In January the school's trustees declared single-sex social organizations to be "antithetical to the mission of the college," and ordered Greek-letter groups to go coed or face elimination. Two fraternities now admit females. Last week, facing a final deadline, three pleaded for more time to persuade their national organizations to revoke century-old prohibitions against women. "The college is taking away a valuable option," laments Richard Cochran, 21, president of Chi Psi and a proponent of single-sex clubs. "Fraternities...
...There is definitely a pay-back factor," said Kramer, who pumped in seven goals when the Crimson (6-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy) recorded a 16-3 rout of Vermont on April 4. "It would be very good to get back at them...
NOTEBOOK: The Crimson continues its road trip with a game against league rival Yale in New Haven on Wednesday before traveling to Burlington, Vt. to take on the Vermont Catamounts...