Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressive new Prospero has arrived on Broadway: the Royal Shakespeare Company's Patrick Stewart, well known to TV audiences as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation. In a performance he first offered to much acclaim last summer in Central Park, Stewart gives us a down-at-heels (barefoot, actually) aristocrat of lithe movements and piercing, narrow-eyed glances. Doubt and failure gnaw at him; he's a tatterdemalion schemer who knows, however potent his magic, that he's trafficking in forces that dwarf...
...Galapagos are a treasured natural resource for Ecuador. But many different agencies and individuals have an interest in the islands, and it is very difficult for all to agree on anything. The unrecognized heroes of this situation are the superintendent and staff of the Galapagos National Park. Overworked and underpaid, they accomplish small miracles. Most of the workers are native people who realize that the future of the islands lies in maintaining a pristine environment for its wildlife. Sad to say, the islands might benefit enormously from being completely closed to outside influence for a few years. BILL HENDRICKS Renton...
...budget impasse was becoming known as the Washington fight that closed down the Grand Canyon, and Arizona Governor Fife Symington was having none of it. Friday morning, Symington ordered National Guard troops to the canyon to "render assistance" until furloughed National Park Service workers return. A few hours later, the Interior Department ordered the governor to stand down. If the Guard did it for the Grand Canyon, Interior's lawyers reasoned, they would have to do it for all 369 parks and monuments in the country. "Once that started snowballing, you couldn't control it," said Park Service spokesman David...
...Treasury securities that he had illicitly sold to conceal his losses. The same hubris permeated skull sessions that allegedly took place when Iguchi met with a Daiwa managing director from Osaka and the head of the New York branch on July 28 and 29 in Manhattan's Park Lane Hotel. The indictment said the managing director insisted that the cover-up continue until Daiwa could report its financial results for the six months ending Sept...
...only grass but minerals, timber and water as well. That federal oversight has fallen short of the ideal is evident in great carpets of sagebrush choking out the range grass, in clear-cut national forests and in mining ventures that threaten even such a national treasure as Yellowstone National Park. The fragile Western environment is degraded, and the public treasury receives virtually no revenue in return for the degradation. Public interest can be served only by improving the federal stewardship of what belongs to all Americans. ROBERT M. UTLEY, Moose, Wyoming...