Word: maricopa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take a recent chilly night in Phoenix. It's raining to end the world, and Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose department was sued by the feds last year for excessive force against inmates, could not be happier. More than 1,000 prisoners in his custody are jammed into Korean War Army tents, and it must be miserable out there, he tells the enthralled Italian American Society at a sausage feed. "There's holes in the tents," he says for the fifth or sixth time that day, grinning like...
...dead couple or anyone else in the house. The ragtag crew of bounty hunters included Michael Martin Sanders, 40, convicted in 1978 on a weapons charge and in 1982 of retaliating against a murder witness. "Calling yourself a bounty hunter does not give you a license to kill," said Maricopa County prosecutor Richard Romley, who has filed second-degree murder charges against Sanders and his colleagues. But the circumstances surrounding the killings were so unusual that prosecutors have not ruled out the possibility that the men were actually trying to rob the house and are claiming to be bounty hunters...
...Phoenix, where 10,000 technicians produce semiconductor chips for companies such as Intel and Motorola, some employers reject as many as 9 out of 10 job seekers for want of needed skills. So the Maricopa community-college system has teamed up with companies to produce techies--sometimes called "gold collar" workers--who are grounded in math and science, computer literate and armed with basic writing skills...
That's been a boon to people like Renee Buckley, 27, who last month began work at an Intel chip plant after several semesters at Maricopa, where the company paid her $2,100-a-year tuition. A 1988 high-school grad, she had worked odd jobs and studied to be a nurse before lighting on microchips. "I wanted a good job in a growing field," she says. "This now looks like the most promising job I've ever...
BORN: Dec. 6, 1932, Boise, Idaho EDUCATION: U of Southern California, B.A., 1961; U of Utah, M.S.W., 1964; Arizona State U, C.P.M, 1979. FAMILY: Wife, Jennie RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: Army, 1950-53, 1954-57 OCCUPATION: Management consultant; professor POLITICAL CAREER: Maricopa County charter government commissioner, 1995-96 ADDRESS: 1525 N. Central, Phoenix...