Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PREMISE: This romantic comedy has it all, showcasing Gershwin's greatest hits, including "I've Got Rhythm," "Someone to Watch Over Me," and "Embraceable You," in a plot involving a cowgirl and a city slicker, New York showgirls and Nevada yokels, bar brawls and broadway shows...
...NEVADA After a longer than expected debate, legislators allow concealed guns in public buildings--but not in schools or airports...
...auto-industry jobs and giving consumers the vehicles they want, but now they are running into stronger opposition. Next week the Senate may consider a complicated parliamentary move proposed by three Senators--one Republican, Slade Gorton of Washington, and two Democrats, Dianne Feinstein of California and Richard Bryan of Nevada--that could finally overturn the rider, though at last count they were still three votes...
...from four years earlier. Most of them need publicly provided attorneys. But what if their lawyers sleep through witness testimony, show up drunk for trial or miss crucial filing deadlines? What if they can't afford forensics tests or, as in the case of Roberto Miranda's lawyer in Nevada, fail to investigate their cases aggressively? Miranda was freed in 1996 from death row after 14 years when a judge found that a key witness had not been interviewed...
...HURTS ME MORE THAN YOU Last week the Nevada assembly joined the debate over whether spanking deters bad behavior or teaches kids it's O.K. to use violence for resolving disputes. A new law explicitly allows parents to spank their children and stipulates that official records of abuse charges be erased if the parent is cleared. Proponents hailed the return of discipline, while critics noted that expunging documents will make it harder to track abusive parents...