Word: saguaro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...firm, and went to Brigham Young University, where she met her husband, an accountant named Christian who goes by "Pancho." They got married at 21 and have three sons. They still live just outside Phoenix in a town called Cave Creek, in a large modern house guarded by towering saguaro cacti. Smart, funny and cheery, Meyer does not seem noticeably undead in person. An observant Mormon, she doesn't drink alcohol and has never seen an R-rated movie. She's not perfect--although Mormons avoid caffeine on principle, she drinks the occasional cherry Diet Pepsi. "It's about keeping...
...these are people named as Blair’s possible successors—contacted me to urge me to take this project on because they thought there was the opportunity for lots of learning in policy terms,” he said. Thomas H. Sander, executive director of The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, a Kennedy School program to identify ways to strengthen America’s civil connectedness, said that although civic involvement is thought to be greater in Britain, the program’s findings may prove otherwise. Differences in religiosity and immigration patterns have...
...some bargain shopping and research on a number of alternatives,” said Tracy Blanchard, who works with Putnam as the assistant director of the Saguaro Seminar, an initiative at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Every year for the past decade, the population has grown by 15,000 souls and covered 4,500 acres of desert in new housing. The newspapers are flush with property advertisements, the roads out of town dotted with signs for new developments with names like Coyote Creek and Saguaro Buttes. The median single-family-home price in 2004 was $176,500, up 14% from the year before. County planners estimate that the population, now at 943,795, will top 1.6 million...
...county suddenly found itself paralyzed by a bird, the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, which was listed as an endangered species after a survey found just 12 of them left in the state. The owl, which weighs 2.5 oz. and nests in cavities in saguaro cacti, had established a small population in prime development land northwest of Tucson. After the bird's listing, house building in the area came to a halt...