Word: crustier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, a moderate pillar of the Senate for 30 years, announced he will retire next year, the 11th Senator to do so. Reports circulated at week's end that Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, one of the Senate's crustier members, may soon become the 12th. In the House, Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, the most senior woman in the chamber and one of its most influential feminists, said she would also step down, as did Kansas Republican Jan Meyers, the only woman to chair a full House committee. For his part, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would...
Hard-rock miners tend to think of themselves as semiheroic, crustier than cowboys, and when a site is inconvenient, they say, "You mine where the ore is." Henderson's ore is entirely surrounded by environmentalists. The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness is not more than a mile away on all sides. Just + a bit farther, 2.5 miles to the southwest, is the great national park...