Word: runoff
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...heavy rains and runoff in Utah turned a main street in Salt Lake City into a river, where enterprising citizens were catching fish. But mud slides in towns to the north pose a greater and continuing danger. "We can control the water, but the mud just goes where it wants to," explained Davis County Deputy Sheriff Harry Jones. "All we can do is try to anticipate where it is going and then get out of the way." Says another deputy, Pat Bird: "When it gets dark, nobody knows when it is coming or where it's coming from...
Most analysts say the contest--which includes a non-partisan primary in September, and a final runoff between the top two votegetters in November--is wide open. One reason is that most of the wide array of candidates are unknown outside their own neighborhoods, the result in part of White's long political shadow over the city. Another explanation for the volatility of the election is that Boston is a city in flux...
White himself speculated at a recent press conference that "the Black candidate" would benefit from his withdrawal as the mayor claimed a fair number of minorities as part of his base. King finished third in the 1979 primary and is confident he will make the runoff this time. But while uniting the Black camp may garner enough votes in the scattered trial heat, King's hard time on race relations in this notoriously polarized city may hurt him with the white voters he'll sorely need come November...
...cigar. So "Mayor Bill," 73, bowed out after finishing a stinging third in a field of seven in last Tuesday's election. Slogging through a freak spring blizzard, voters favored former State Legislator Federico Pefia and former District Attorney Dale Tooley, who will meet in a runoff on June...
Last month the San Joaquin River, flush with mountain runoff, broke through a levee near Vernalis in Northern California and washed out 10 sq. mi. of prime farmland. Farther upstream, in central California's Kings County, rains had already dunked 70,000 acres in floodwater; the runoff now threatens an additional 20,000 acres. "We're down here like a bathtub without a drain," fretted Farmer Don Gilkey, who had 4,000 of his 10,000 acres drowned...