Word: ariz
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...Classic is likely to be an especially big hit in retirement communities that allow people to drive golf carts on public streets. In Sun City West, Ariz., Yamaha Dealer Ned Lee says, carts have become a major mode of transportation. He adds, "Here, parking lots have spaces marked just for golf carts...
Nonetheless, by the beginning of next month, Senators David Boren (D-Okla.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) will ask their colleagues to place a cap on their newfound wellspring of campaign funds. With Senate PAC contributions up 385 percent between 1976 and 1984 and with special interests using their influence to help bury this measure, PAC reform seems as likely a prospect this spring as real tax reform. But if this bill fails, the spectre of quid pro quo campaign contributions will further haunt American politics...
...support and sanctuary for Central American refugees have been hit by burglaries, suggesting an organized campaign of harassment. The break-ins have occurred at churches and the offices of sanctuary groups, as well as organizations providing legal guidance to Central American refugees in Seattle, Detroit, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Guadalupe, Ariz., and Cambridge, Mass. Some burglaries are repeat jobs. The Cambridge offices of the New Institute for Central America (NICA), which arranges for Americans to travel to Nicaragua, were ransacked recently for the fourth time. "We think that the Government is behind these acts," said Garrett D. Brown, NICA's associate...
...David C. Jewitt and G. Edward Danielson first spied Halley's, on Oct. 16, 1982, when it was more than 1 billion miles from earth. Ever since then, most of the world's major telescopes have been trained on the comet at some point. At Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., Astronomers Lawrence Wasserman and Edward Bowell have calculated 40 points on the comet's route at which it will pass directly in front of a relatively bright star. During one of these passages, which are expected to last about 15 minutes, they hope to learn how dust is distributed...
...women's tennis squad experienced one of its best-ever recruiting years. Among the top candidates for Coach Don Usher's netwomen are Jackie Farrell, Kristin Bland and Louise Zonis, all from the Boston area; Cindy Buchsbaum of Tucson, Ariz.; and Martha Berkman of Pittsburgh...