Word: desert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except for a four-year break, Peter MacDonald Sr. has ruled the 200,000-member Navajo nation as its strong-willed chairman ever since 1970. Presiding over a Southwest desert reservation larger in area than Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined, he has lived well on his $55,000 annual salary plus, according to witnesses, some expensive perks. Yet last week MacDonald lost his grip on his honored post. Tainted by allegations that he had accepted bribes from contractors seeking business with the tribe, he declared that he would take an extended leave, but then changed his mind and attempted...
...toughly, even harshly, that won't simply be tossed off as too conservative. There can be no forgiveness, no compassion for the criminal who kills. He should face a barren and hopeless life of incarceration. Perhaps the 50 states should, together, build a giant maximum- security prison in the desert. Reinvent Dante's Inferno. Let its inhabitants languish and be forgotten by all Americans. Just don't kill them for me. I don't want to be a murderer. Ted Bundy is dead. Would that he were sitting in an empty cell contemplating his crimes for the next 40 years...
...know that some of these were explicitly mentioned to your reporter. She apparently didn't realize that Harvard is a desert for many performers looking to showcase their talent and that it is news to some readers that there is a new group around dedicated to presenting live performances. It is a shame that your reporter did not include in her article a description of Cookin' and its actual purposes...
West German officials may have dug in their heels in part because of what they called "a media campaign" in the U.S. Bonn took special umbrage at a New York Times column by William Safire calling the desert chemical plant "Auschwitz-in-the-sand...
Even Libya, while continuing to claim that the huge desert plant was built strictly as a pharmaceutical facility, had a small role in documenting West Germany's participation in the project. The Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations, Ali Treiki, confirmed that West German firms "did help us, not only in this plant, in other plants also...