Word: arizona
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...Alabama and Wyoming have the weakest overall legislative systems, other states have even worse specific shortcomings. New Hampshire pays its lawmakers the least: $100 each per year. With 424 seats, it also has the largest and most unwieldy membership. Mississippi has the most committees, 90. In three states-Kansas, Arizona and Nebraska-the law requires that pending bills be read aloud in their entirety to the chambers; few legislators listen and the reading is sometimes done during lunch-hour recesses. The separation of powers is seriously blurred in Georgia, where the lieutenant-governor is a powerful figure in the state...
...five were cited for contempt late last year when they refused to answer questions put to them at Federal grand jury hearings in Tucson, Arizona. The grand jury was convened ostensibly for the purpose of investigating an alleged Weatherman plot to purchase dynamite in Tucson and transport it to California...
...heat flow in rocks, remains of ancient magnetic fields and the variations in the velocity of seismic waves under different parts of the West. He also points to much more conspicuous signs of its presence: the hot springs in California and Yellowstone National Park, the remnants of old volcanoes-Arizona's Kitt Peak, for example, and Crater Lake in Oregon-the upward tilt of the American plains as they stretch westward toward the Rockies and the shape of the mountains themselves. Unlike the Andes or even the closer Canadian Rockies -both of which were squeezed up by massive lateral...
...royal families of the Episcopal Church. His great-grandfather, Ovid Americus Kinsolving, was a Virginia pastor and a spy for the Confederacy. His grandfather, Lucien Lee Kinsolving, was a missionary bishop in Brazil. His late father, Arthur B. Kinsolving II, was chaplain at West Point and, later, Bishop of Arizona. His great-uncle George was Bishop of Texas. A distant cousin, Charles J. Kinsolving III, is currently Bishop of New Mexico. Yet probably no Kinsolving has ever been heard by a wider audience-and certainly none has gone after an audience more flamboyantly-than acerbic, peripatetic Lester, an Episcopal pastor...