Word: colorado
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...same time, the Klan's membership is growing, up 25% in 18 months. Klan activities have been reported in 22 states, from Middletown, Ohio, to Castro Valley, Calif., as well as on the aircraft carrier A U.S.S. Independence and at the Fort Carson army base in Colorado. But four out of five Klansmen are in the old Confederate states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. Most of the Klan members are blue-collar men with no more than three years of high school. About a third are women, usually the wives or girlfriends of male members. There...
...dirt road running up Parachute Creek in western Colorado winds through an ever steeper canyon. As the road climbs, it deteriorates into first a stream bed and then a cliff-hugging path that passes a blackened ledge of shale rock that was struck by lightning two years ago and spouted flames for three days. The Indians once dubbed the magic mineral "the rock that burns...
...rock is marl, a variety of limestone laced with a solid fossil fuel called kerogen. The kerogen was deposited 40 million years ago in the form of millions of tons of vegetable matter that collected on the bottom of a mammoth freshwater lake that then covered Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. But these lake-bed accumulations were never subjected to temperatures as high as 300° F and to extreme pressures that in time created underground deposits of readily usable liquid oil and natural gas. Now man must finish nature's work...
...energy companies and Washington policymakers are sold on shale, others are not. Colorado Governor Richard Lamm protests that any crash development program "could do irreparable damage to our water supply, to our communities, to our environment." State officials, local representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sierra Club and similar groups are allied to stop or at least to stall shale development. Water, a precious resource in the tri-state region, is one of their greatest concerns. Conservationists claim that shale extraction could use from one to five barrels of water for each barrel of oil, but company officials maintain...
...first signs of a housing decline are evident around the country. Average mortgage rates have jumped over two points since January of 1978 to 11.2%, and in California, Colorado, Indiana and other places they are 13% or 14%. Monthly payments are often no longer listed in the handy books real estate agents carry, and salesmen have been forced to use hand-held calculators to compute the numbing bill. Residential loans in Washington, D.C., have virtually halted...