Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill introduced by Herman Talmadge to pay farmers $2.3 billion for acreage taken out of production, the Administration reversed itself last week and supported the measure. Since last summer, DeConcini had been vainly urging the Administration to buy copper for Government stockpiles and thus relieve unemployment in the Arizona mines. Earlier this month, Mondale approached DeConcini on the matter. Said the Vice President: "We may be able to put something together." The week before the Senate vote, the White House offered to buy 225,000 tons of copper, less than half the amount DeConcini requested. "Too little, too late," responded...
Standing in the Oval Office one morning last week, Carter rather unhappily eyed Arizona's determined Dennis DeConcini, who had just wrested from Carter a significant change in the Senate resolution. "Next time I get into one of these confrontations," Carter sighed, "you are such a good negotiator I would like to have you on my side earlier...
...answer this query, you must go beyond the slick, master-salesman style that characterizes the amiable former Notre Dame assistant coach and led one Boston columnist to crack that McLaughlin would have made a mint selling Arizona real estate...
DIED. Wesley Bolin, 68, a first-term Arizona Governor who had served as secretary of state for 29 years; of a heart attack; in Phoenix. A conservative Democrat, Bolin established a bipartisan administration by appointing Republicans to office. He will be replaced by state Attorney General Bruce Babbitt, who has mounted a tough law-enforcement campaign against Arizona gangsters...
...year before last Penders said he purposely downgraded his recruiting, to avoid having to cut previously recruited players from the team. Last year Penders accelerated his talent hunt once again, and landed blue-chip freshman Dave Westenburg. Westenberg, who was named Arizona's "Junior of the Year" in high school, is a pure shooter who has been averaging over 70 per cent from the field...