Word: miles
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...Navajo tribal court is the largest tribal court system in the United States with 17 justices handling over 90,000 cases annually in seven districts that span the enormous 27,000-square-mile Navajo reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah...
What has become of this once pressing issue? In the 1980s homelessness was widely regarded as a national emergency, one that drew heavy media coverage and gave rise to mass demonstrations (in 1986, 5 million Americans joined hands along a 4,000-mile line across the country to raise money for the homeless). That kind of public outcry led to the passage of the first and only federal law to assist homeless Americans, the McKinney Act of 1987, which authorized millions of dollars in funding for housing and hunger relief. But today that spirit is gone. In 1987 the number...
...Crimson men also showed their depth by winning both the mile and two-mile relays. Sophomore Jamil Shamasdin, Fuller, freshman Richie Powell and Ciollo made up the 4x400 meter team...
...relatively small amounts for tapes from local TV-news stations, foreign news services, surveillance-camera outfits, police departments, private investigators and, of course, people with videocameras and a stomach for violence. Then they spice them up with sound effects and voice-overs ("Frieda had a rap sheet a mile long," an animal expert says of a marauding circus elephant...
...captain Joe Ciollo won the 500, junior Dominic Patillo won the 800 and co-captain Doug Lin won the mile in dramatic fashion thanks to a kick in the last...