Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson can't help but look forward to the battle of the best. Head and shoulders above the other teams, Harvard and Brown guarantee to exhibit some of the best polo this side of the Sierra Nevadas. For the Crimson it is more than your average grudge match...
Ibrahim J. Gassama, a rally organizer from the Law School and a native of Sierra Leone, called the Grenada invasion "a threat to all third world countries...
Some of Reagan's critics see the Reagan-Clark intimacy as oddly advantageous to environmentalists. "Reagan has lost his lightning rod," contends Polly Freeman, spokeswoman for the Sierra Club. With Watt going and Clark arriving, the President, she believes, will have to take more heat on environmental issues. About the best that environmentalists could say about Clark last week was that his lack of knowledge on land issues could work in their favor. Says Janet Brown, executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund: "Maybe it's better he start with no opinion than the opinions James Watt started...
...less than three years as Secretary of the interior, Watt managed to generate more support for environmentalists than the Sierra Club could in a decade. His knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, his uncanny ability to sabotage his own plans with memorable gaffes--surely Watt's successor will not be so incompetent...
...comparatively underpopulated Rocky Mountain states are expected to fill up at the most spectacular rate, with the region's population almost doubling by 2000. Six of the seven fastest-growing states lie between the Plains and the Sierra Nevada. The state of Nevada, growing most rapidly of all, is expected to increase its population from about 800,000 to almost 2 million by the start of the 21st century...