Word: canyon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lissaman, derives most of its annual $17 million revenue from the monitoring and control of air pollution and hazardous wastes. One current contract, for example, involves determining the contribution of Arizona's giant coal-fired Navajo power plant to the haze that sometimes hampers visibility around the nearby Grand Canyon...
...reportedly living in Southern California, has said through third parties that he is in the U.S. to vacation and conduct "a broad survey of American society." So far, he has visited the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. His friend Lu Keng, a Hong Kong journalist, says this "research" will keep Xu in America "for quite some time." Says Lu: "My feeling is that he won't go back to China until Li Peng is no longer in power. He may want to avoid retaliation." Xu's old associates in Beijing may be cursing him, but Lu says the former envoy...
Before the surprise announcement in January by platinum-haired Democratic Governor Rose Mofford that she would not seek re-election, it looked as if the Grand Canyon State would have a calm 1990 gubernatorial election. As the secretary of state who inherited the Governor's mansion in April 1988, Mofford, 67, was Arizona's Jerry Ford, healing the wounds inflicted by Mecham's impeachment for financial improprieties. She was ahead in the polls before she decided, "I want to start living for Rosie...
Some 15 miles away, near the intersection of Coldwater Canyon and Roscoe boulevards, in the San Fernando Valley working-class section of North Hollywood, Buddhist monks pray in a Thai temple pungent with incense and dominated by a 10-ft. statue of Buddha. On weekends Thai families turn the temple's parking lot into a festival straight out of Bangkok...