Word: arizonas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arizona Governor Evan Mecham has faced charges of incompetence, racism and impropriety since he took office in 1987. Last week he faced more serious allegations of criminality. A grand jury indicted him on two counts of fraud and one count of filing a false report about a $350,000 loan to his 1986 < election campaign from a Tempe real estate developer. The Governor also faces three counts of perjury for not listing the loan on financial disclosure statements...
...campaign, was indicted on three separate counts in the alleged scheme. Mecham reported the loan to the state last November, only after it was disclosed by reporters. The indictment was but the latest in a series of woes for the Governor, who faces possible impeachment proceedings in the Arizona legislature as well as an impending recall election...
...vying for the right to house the world's most advanced subatomic particle accelerator, a $4.4 billion project that will bring thousands of jobs and considerable prestige to the state that wins. Last week a joint committee of 21 scientists winnowed down the original 25 contestants to eight finalists: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas...
While Babbitt can sound impassioned about creating jobs, his room temperature is cooler than most. Detractors call him aloof and ungrateful for political help, and even many allies describe him with more admiration than affection. Says Alfredo Gutierrez, former Democratic leader in the Arizona senate, "I consider Bruce a friend, but he has never been a warm, inclusive person, and that offends some people in politics...
...offer seems reserved for his family: Wife Hattie, 40, a Phoenix trial lawyer he met while working in the Texas antipoverty program, and Sons Christopher, 12, and T.J., 10. Ardent naturalists, the Babbitts regularly spent weekends and holidays hiking the canyons and skiing the mountains of northern Arizona before the campaign...