Word: parkers
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American officials do, however, attempt to manage the Colorado, and in the process have been forced to trigger much of the flooding. Engineers at the Glen Canyon and Parker dams have had to open their floodgates wider than ever before. Last winter's Rocky Mountain snowpack was up to three times its usual thickness, and since Memorial Day it has been melting unusually fast. Southwesterners blame Bureau of Reclamation dam managers for not releasing more of the runoff earlier. Says William Claypool of Needles, Calif.: "Anyone over the age of eight who watched TV this winter should have known...
...residents. Downstream, hundreds of houses and businesses in Arizona and California river settlements were flooded, and vital tourist business was badly crimped. "This is a man-made disaster, and there's no excuse for it," says Sandy Fields, owner of the Castle Rock Shores Resort in hard-hit Parker, Ariz. "It's just plain stupidity...
...David L. Parker '85 made his formal complaint in Middlesex Supreme Court against Robert C. Repetto, associate professor of Economics and Population, to recover damages charging Repetto struck...
...Parker already had filed criminal charges in early June against Repetto for assault and battery. The criminal trial is scheduled to begin August...
...constitutional law expert at the Law School added that the court's decision does not necessarily mean that the justices would rule that the law was constitutional. However, Professor of Law Richard D Parker said that the thought that the court would rule for the government because of a Burger Court trend both to allow the government to institute conditions on citizens benefits and to be deferential to the executive branch on matters of national security...