Word: governors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, preparing to make a run for the Oval Office the next time he gets a chance. His speech at the Kennedy School was full of goodnatured self-effacing humor about his poor showing in 1988. Babbit told the story about and eager supporter who informed the former Arizona governor that the only problem was that by the time she knew who he was, he was out of the race...
...former Arizona governor told an audience of about 140 people in Leverett House dining hall that he felt there was a "lack of meaning in the campaign...
...former governor said he felt that in eightyears under Reagan, Americans increasinglyidentify success with personal economic gain overmore egalitarian values...
Hightower won a test of strength last week in the state senate, which passed a bill to extend the life of his agency. The acid test may come when Republican Governor Bill Clements, no Hightower fan, decides whether to sign the measure. A veto could send Hightower packing to his backyard tomato-and- okra patch. But the feisty populist is unlikely to moderate his radical position. As he has said, "There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos...
...since 1941, most of the Mono Basin's mountain water has been disappearing from here and from three other streams down a tube that leads about 225 miles south to Los Angeles. The result, as bumper stickers, outraged postcards to the Governor, and sober scientific studies have all amply declared, is that this country's oldest lake, and one of its most unusual, is being destroyed. Even the Los Angeles department of water and power concedes that the Mono Lake ecosystem could collapse. "We feel comfortable that we have 20 years before it's going to happen," says David Babb...