Word: arizona
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This is the complete opposite of what individual states have been doing. In the last several years, citizens in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington and Oregon have all passed campaign-finance initiatives. Two more states, Arizona and Massachusetts, passed similar laws during the 1998 elections. These states run the ideological gamut, but their voters all understand one thing: The massive influx of money into the political process is dangerous to our 200-year-old ideal of democracy...
...world. After days of tap dancing, by late last week the Republicans had cleaved fairly cleanly between two camps: those in Pat Buchanan's populist, isolationist fortress who were arguing we should leave Europe to the Europeans, and those who, belatedly in some cases, fell in step behind Arizona Senator John McCain, the former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and called for NATO to fight on even harder to preserve the credibility of U.S. power...
Martin's time in the 1650-meter freestyle left him 24 seconds behind champion Ryk Neethling of Arizona, who posted a time of 14:35.57. Michigan swimmers Chris Thompson and Tim Siciliano, as well as Arizona's Nat Lewis all came in just ahead of Martin to take the two through four slots in the event...
Donald C. Johanson is director of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University...
...idea that a comet or asteroid might be bearing down on Earth--as in Deep Impact and Armageddon--can be traced to this crusading geologist. Probing Arizona's Meteor Crater in 1956, Shoemaker found a form of quartz that is created only by tremendous impacts. Finding the same telltale mineral in other craters, he concluded that they had been formed not by volcanoes, as most scientists thought, but by large objects hitting Earth. It was only a matter of time, he said, before Earth would be struck again. So he launched the first organized search for big incoming objects, recruiting...