County council leader David Hodge ordered Mr Lake to stand down last year and referred him to the standards committee.

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"These are some of the most sophisticated launch vehicles in the world, " boasts David Triano of Shadow Components, a Lake Tahoe, Calif. manufacturer of elegant, carbon-fiber rockets.

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In 2008, Elizabeth Grant, a twenty-two-year-old woman from Lake Placid, recorded an album in Manhattan with the well-known producer David Kahne.

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But David Shaff, an administrator at the Portland Water Bureau, defended the decision to empty the lake.

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Professor David Harper, Member of the IHP National Committee, presented his long-standing IHP Ecohydrology work on Lake Naivasha basin in Kenya.

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