Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grey gets new energy from the messages on his voice mail back in Illinois. There are interview requests and legislative updates from all over the country. An Omaha, Nebraska, doctor wonders where to send a $100 contribution. A Honolulu minister requests information to distribute. A New Yorker wants Grey to fight off-track betting in Chinatown. "Sometimes I feel like I'm riding a wave," he says, "and all I have to do is stand up on the board...
...most from casinos are those that can attract enough out-of-towners so that the regressive losses, and attendant social problems, fall less heavily on their own citizens. In Las Vegas, Southern California tourists bear the burden, while the riverboat in Council Bluffs, Iowa, lives off bettors from Omaha, Nebraska. And although most Illinois casinos attract few out-of-staters, East St. Louis is an exception. On two recent nights some 70% of the Casino Queen's patrons were white, many of them from across the river in Missouri. "Casino gambling is a shell game," explains Earl Grinols, a University...
Another politician off the Plains, William Jennings Bryan, a man who could make Bill Clinton come off as laconic, remained so closely associated with Nebraska that he was sometimes known as "the boy orator of the Platte." (The Smoky Hill River does run through Russell County, Kansas, but Dole has probably lived in Washington too long to be known as "the adult mumbler of the Smoky Hill...
...Kansas, voters in 12 of the 14 counties that have put factory farms on the ballot in recent years have elected to keep them out. In Nebraska, a state ban on corporate farms has sharply slowed their growth. Elsewhere, opponents have used zoning and environmental laws to block plans for new farms. Residents are also seeking to shut plants now in operation. "The smells are horrendous," complains Carla Smalts, an Oklahoma farm wife who has sued to prevent a pig palace from opening near her home. She's also helping to coordinate anti-hog farm movements in five states...
After defeating Nebraska handily in the first round, Harvard fell to Michigan 4-2 in the second, lost the consolation match to UNLV and was eliminated by Tulsa...