That's the charge against Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, regarding a gaming license for some Chippewa Indians.
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"There is great potential (in Babbitt's plan) for inappropriate overuse from heavy recreation, " he also warned.
He came to fame by skewering small towns (in Main Street) and medium-size heartland cities (in Babbitt).
Justice Department officials whisper that Bruce Babbitt, the interior secretary, may soon be investigated by an independent prosecutor.
Mr. BRUCE BABBITT (Former Secretary of the Interior): Oh, it's a pleasure to come back out of ancient history.
The Secretary of the Interior then was Bruce Babbitt, who joins us now.
Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for Babbitt--the story of a small-minded Realtor in the 1920s.
Interior Secretary and former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt remembered Goldwater as eternally linked to his state's greatest natural wonder.
National Landscape Monuments protection is aimed at preserving entire ecosystems and would extend well beyond visitor centers, Babbitt said.
Mr. BABBITT: Well, I put together a task force in the Interior Department looking at possible public lands for monuments.
Babbitt said the Transportation Security Administration has approved the program, and that he expects it to begin in the coming weeks.
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This week, an independent federal agency urged Bruce Babbitt, the secretary of the interior, to reconsider the plans before approving them.
"He had such a history of beating the charges against him that I just expected him to do it again, " said Babbitt.
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Most of the Nets starters had retreated to the bench before Portland pulled within 101-87 on Luke Babbitt's 3-pointer with six minutes remaining.
In the Kennewick Man case, Babbitt stopped scientists from doing forensic work on the skeletal remains of a 9, 000-year-old man found in Oregon.
Atlantic salmon may at last receive protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to an announcement by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt Thursday.
Novelist Sinclair Lewis rose to fame in the 1920s (and won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature) by satirizing small-town small-mindedness, in Main Street and Babbitt.
In 1979, she was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals by then-Gov. Bruce Babbitt and served there until she was appointed to the Supreme Court.
If Congress does not warm to Babbitt's wishes, the Interior Secretary hopes President Clinton will use his authority under the Antiquities Act to designate the land monuments.
"It's clear to us in looking at the February Colgan Air crash in Buffalo that there are things we should be doing now, " FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said.
In the upcoming appeal, a panel of judges will hear oral arguments from the Wyoming Farm Bureau and Bruce Babbitt from the Department of the Interior, among others.
"The nation's largest land agency ought to be induced to have a sense of pride, " Babbitt told a audience at the University of Denver Law School last week.
Without the visitor centers, gas stations and other amenities found in most national parks, the National Landscape Monuments would offer a greater "adventure" to the American public, Babbitt said.
"This is a very insightful effort on the part of Secretary Babbitt to protect these special places, " said Rindy O'Brien, vice president of public policy for the Wilderness Society.
Janet Reno, America's attorney-general, asked for an independent counsel to look into the role of the interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, in a decision to stop an Indian casino project .
In an effort to preserve as many as 4 million acres of the American West, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt is calling for a new category of public lands protection.
About a dozen areas would be considered under Babbitt's proposed system, including Steens Mountain and Soda Mountain in Oregon, an expansion of the Colorado National Monument and the Carrizo plain in California's San Joaquin Valley.
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