Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...locating pay dirt suddenly turned old claims on Henderson into a $1 billion lode of extractable ore. The glitch was that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed to swap the mine for $65 million worth of government holdings elsewhere. Clinton was able to upstage the first day of the Republican Convention last August...
...over a century. "It was gold seekers who settled the West," she notes crisply. "They built the churches; they built the towns." Her purchase of dozens of nonproducing Henderson claims over 50 years probably struck some as more sentimental than savvy. But now her holdings, on lease to Crown Butte, constitute at least 40% of its goldfield--a portion so large that the pact is specifically contingent on her selling her rights to the company so that they can be part of the exchange...
Perspective is certainly important for the Crimson, winners of a second consecutive Red Rolfe division championship, who will face the Lou Gehrig division champion Princeton Tigers this weekend in a best-of-three playoff at O'Donnell to decide the Ivy crown...
Radcliffe is traveling to Penn State to take part in Nationals, a four-team, two-day affair that will crown rugby's national champion. The Black & White will face the defending champs, Princeton, in the semifinals tomorrow at noon. The contest will be a rematch of last year's semifinal game which the Tigers won in a closely-contested battle...
SEATTLE SLEW, 23; MIDWAY, KENTUCKY; 1977 Triple Crown Winner...