Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dare oppose it. "Nobody in his right mind stands up and says, 'I'm the pro-growth candidate,' even when he is," notes San Diego campaign consultant Thomas Shepard. Voters themselves are of two minds about development. "We're schizophrenic about growth," admits Peggy Rubach, the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb whose population has nearly doubled, to 290,000, in the past 10 years. "We want the jobs, but we don't want the problems that come with them...
Roughly 10% of the correspondents, however, were furious with Milken for his confessed criminal activities, which included the manipulation of securities prices. John Weigel, a financial consultant in Costa Mesa, Calif., called Milken "merely a financial extortionist on a Capone-esque scale that demands punishment on a similar scale." Concurred Miami attorney J.B. Spence: "It will be incredibly disheartening to the American public if the sentence is a mere slap on the wrist...
Debi Lane's nightmare began last November with a routine thyroid test. When she returned for the results the next day, doctors at the Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Ariz., had chilling news. "There's been a terrible mistake," they told the 41-year-old mother of four. "Basically, we've killed your thyroid...