Word: muir
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...principled advocates for centuries. But a modern-day group championing that impractical idea saw its claims to respectability vanish one day last week in an eruption of automatic rifle fire just before sunset on a normally quiet North Dakota prairie. In less than a minute, Kenneth Muir, 53, chief U.S. marshal in the state, and Deputy Marshal Robert Cheshire Jr., 32, had been killed. Deputy Marshal James Hopson, 59, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. So, too, was Yorivon Kahl, 23, son of Gordon Kahl, 63, a convicted tax evader whom the marshals had tried to arrest...
Michael McCloskey executive director of the Sierra Club said, Only James Watt could fail to see the difference between Hermann Goring and John Muir a 19th century naturalist and founder of the Sierra Club...
When the great naturalist John Muir wrote those idealistic lines in 1898, the nation's parks and forests were peaceful retreats where a visitor from the city might not encounter anything more ominous than the mournful moans of a lovesick moose. No more. Today Muir's pristine wilderness is becoming increasingly dangerous. Not because of any natural menace, but because of human malevolence. In almost all national parks and forests, crime is rising sharply, especially the violent kind...
...Kevin J. Muir Clifton Heights...
...Administration's rebuttal is that voting rights gains among blacks and reapportionment of state legislatures have given the poor greater political clout, making it less likely that legislatures will act harshly to lower current welfare and food stamp benefits. Political Scientist William K. Muir at the University of California in Berkeley agrees. "Thirty years ago, you had a political system rigged against the poor and the black. But by and large, that has been cured. It's very rare to see a diminution of the franchise once it has been obtained...