Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hobbyists, danger is part of the scenario. "You step back into Jack London's time," says Hopkins, who first hopped a freight during his student acting days to attend his grandfather's 90th birthday. "Each trip has edginess, adventure and beauty." Hopkins and his companions are headed for Yuma, Ariz., a wintertime hobo haven along the Colorado River. Since the bull had promised 30 days in jail and a $2,000 fine if further annoyed, everyone hid, returning well after midnight to catch the train. They succeeded, but with difficulty. Comfortable boxcars are giving way to sealed containerized loads...
...wasteful effect of these subsidies is not widely understood. Many outsiders, as well as most locals surveyed by the Western Governors' Association, falsely believe the region would have sufficient water if only profligate cities like Newport Beach, Calif., and Scottsdale, Ariz., made do with fewer swimming pools and car washes. Rather than match supply to demand by steeply raising water rates, most political leaders merely exhort residents to take shorter showers and flush toilets less often. Los Angeles will soon spend $600,000 broadcasting such bromides...
...crime to which Debra Ann Forster, 18, of Mesa, Ariz., pleaded guilty last week: leaving her two sons, ages six months and 18 months, alone in a sweltering apartment for nearly three days. The highly unusual sentence handed down by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Lindsay Ellis Budzyn: Forster must use birth control for the rest of her childbearing years...
...PHOENIX, Ariz.--Gov. Michael S. Dukakis defeated Jesse Jackson by a 3-2 margin in Arizona's Democratic presidential caucuses and shut out Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr. in the race for delegates...
...PHEONIX, Ariz.--Gov. Evan Mecham acknowledged yesterday before a House impeachment committee that he may have told Arizona's top police officer not to cooperate with an investigation of an alleged death threat...