Word: nevada
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...distributing a map of America these days that offers its vision of the future. If Roe is overturned, naral predicts that just seven states, mostly along both coasts, can be counted on to keep abortion easily available. Across the broad middle of America, an area stretching from Idaho and Nevada east to Kentucky and Tennessee, the group foresees a nearly unbroken regime of tough new obstacles and outright prohibitions. Though opponents of abortion say the other side is overstating the threat as a way to mobilize supporters, they are quietly confident of roughly the same outcome...
...citizens, and one of them is Wilson, who was mayor of San Diego at the time of the Harris murders as well as an outspoken supporter of limits on appeals. Since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, only five non-Southern states (Illinois, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Indiana) have executed prisoners. Many opponents are now worried that California could open the way to more. But few legal experts expect a surge of executions because of the arduous appeals process that is automatically launched in every capital case. Even in California, experts say, most of the appeals...
Eschewing his gubernatorial record and instead running on a platform of environmentalism and space exploration (hence the nickname "Moonbeam"), Brown presented himself as the alternative to Carter and won five late primaries--Maryland, New Jersey, Nevada, Rhode Island and California...
Royal Blue, Nevada Red, and White...
History does not record if the band of nauseated Forty-Niners eventually reached California or how they fared in their quest. Yet on that day long ago in Nevada, they had already struck gold...