Word: arizonas
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...spot on the ballot in a California referendum this fall. -- Despite a voter referendum in Maine last month in which citizens soundly rejected an antipornography measure, large-scale efforts to restrict the sale of sexually explicit material are under way in more than a dozen states from Massachusetts to Arizona...
...fallen price of petroleum, says an executive for Arizona-based U-Haul, has spawned an exodus from the oil towns and caused shortages of U-Haul equipment. In May and June, the company spent $114,000 to pay people to fly to Florida and drive back 450 trucks and 1,100 trailers to Houston and New Orleans. But many Texans still wait three weeks to get one of the costly U- Haul trucks...
...good to be really physically tired," says Shawn J. Stirling. She adds that she dances more than she does during the school year as a dance major at Arizona State University. "This is just all dance and you have enough energy because you don't have other classes. You can be physical all day," says Stirling...
...federal action involves divvying up 1.8 million acres of disputed grazing and farm land in northeast Arizona. At the heart of the controversy is a Navajo settlement in what is supposed to be Hopi territory: Big Mountain, a juniper-dotted ridge about 50 miles east of Grand Canyon National Park. It is a place of endless sagebrush and soaring golden eagles, undergirded by rich seams of coal and uranium, where a band of perhaps 1,000 or so Navajo has vowed to resist relocation. "To move away is to disappear," says Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly resister with an easy smile...
After decades of Navajo encroachment into territory long claimed by the Hopi and successive efforts by the Federal Government to redraw the boundaries of their lands, a federal district court in Arizona in 1962 declared much of the disputed territory to be a "joint-use area." That effectively allowed the more numerous Navajo to dominate the land. But in 1974 Congress decided that it would be fairer to divide the joint lands equally, a solution that pleased neither tribe. Soon about 300 miles of barbed-wire fence bristled across the region, and the Government ordered 100 Hopi to one side...