Word: arizonas
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There is little mention of exactly why ranchers in West Texas, Arizona and other areas of the southwestern U.S. want to remove invading species of mesquite. Ranchers go to the trouble of burning, chaining and chemically controlling their mesquite to provide a more favorable growing climate for range grasses. When grass is reestablished, the soil is broken up, more water percolates into the water table, erosion lessens, perennial streams are re-established and, quite often, even wildlife returns...
...Everything in the Post story was true," Republican Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who heads the Senate committee, told TIME. "They didn't have everything, but everything they had is true." At a meeting of the National Security Council last November, Reagan approved approximately $19 million to recruit, train and supply a small military force, in conjunction with certain right-wing governments in Latin America, including Argentina. Some of the money was earmarked for support of groups inside Nicaragua that are opposed to a Sandinista dictatorship. Both the House and Senate Intelligence committees were informed late last year...
Four years later, former Piston Head Coach Herb Brown is teaching basketball to high school girls somewhere in Arizona. Ben Poquette is a scrub with Utah, and Bob Lanier is closing out his playing days in Milwaukee...
...only was it simultaneously colder, windier and snowier across a wider swath than anyone could remember, but the harshness seemed to clamp down and stay. On Wednesday a new round of snowstorms rose in Arizona and New Mexico, moved east into Texas and covered the Waco area with up to a foot of snow. A blizzard struck the Great Plains on Friday and the Great Lakes states on Saturday; Midwestern temperatures once more fell into the -20° to -30° range. Snow fell again on the battered Gulf Coast and the Eastern seaboard off and on during the weekend...
Last week a team of astronomers, led by Marc Aaronson of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, detonated something of a minibang. Using new data obtained by observing the movements of a family of galaxies in the vicinity of the Virgo cluster, they assigned a new age to the universe. The universe, it now seems, is closer to 10 billion years...