Word: arizonas
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...Arizona Strip has long been an eagerly contested prize. Six million acres of largely federally owned desert, forest, canyons and mountains, it stretches 60 miles from the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona up to the Utah border. Environmentalists, impressed by the region's spectacular scenery and rare wildlife, have wanted part of it declared a protected wilderness area. Developers, coveting the mineral deposits, among them perhaps the richest veins of uranium in the U.S., have been pressing for the area to be opened to mining...
...wilderness study" classification. Faced with a limbo designation that can extend for years, the environmentalists and developers, traditionally at loggerheads, took the unusual step of negotiating with each other. The result: an unprecedented agreement that is the basis of a bill introduced in Congress last month as the Arizona Strip District Wilderness Act. Says Russell Butcher of the National Parks and Conservation Association, a private environmental group, who was a key figure in initiating the discussions: "Considering the confrontational approach that has marked most wilderness issues, this was real pioneering...
...negotiators began lobbying local Chambers of Commerce, county commissioners, and ranchers who graze cattle on the strip. In Washington, the measure has strong bipartisan support and is expected to pass both the Senate and the House in this session. One index of its acceptability: a leading sponsor is Arizona Democrat Bob Stump, who has never voted for a wilderness bill during his seven years in the House...
...Arizona, a stuffy concierge insists that Chase's credit cards are lost and refuses to cash a check because he has no plastic to back it up. Our hero then cleans out the hotel cash register. Soon after, the family discovers that crotchety old Aunt (Imogene Coca) has passed away in the car. In a Pythonesque sick joke, the family straps the body to the roof and deposits it at the widower's doorstep in Phoenix in the midst of a rainstorm...
...Rosovsky were unavailable for comment yesterday, as were the three scholars still pondering the Harvard offers. Arizona's Lieberson, a specialist in minority relations refused to discuss his rejection of Harvard in favor of a decision to join the faculty at the University of California at Berkely. He said only that the decision was "more matter of personal matters than anything to do with the Harvard department...