Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislative action to curb electronic eavesdropping. He made another proposal that L.B.J. would not be likely to approve: that Texas submit to the rest of the states a constitutional amendment requiring the Federal Government to return 5% of all federal in come taxes directly to the states. In Nevada, incoming Republican Governor Paul Laxalt proposed a "hold the line" budget...
...million electrical-power plant will have two 750,000-kw. generators on 2,500 acres of Colorado River land. Power from the plant, along with that from a similar project already under construction in western New Mexico, will light up the lamps of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and the proliferating lower two-thirds of California...
...Nevada site for the Mohave project was selected because 1) there are no antismog regulations out on the desert, 2) the Colorado River is an ideal source of the water required by the plant, and 3) the desert land is central to the areas it will serve. selection of coal, rather than gas-oil or nuclear energy to fuel the Mohave power plant, was determined by the simple economics of electric-power production. Coal-generated power costs about 60% as much as that produced by a new nuclear plant, and at least 10% less than gas-oil generation. Moreover...
...Nevada has the highest suicide rate (22.5) of any state, and the West Coast the highest of any region. Nevada's high rate presumably results from the state's low population outside of Reno and Las Vegas, where gambling, drinking and divorce create a high-crisis quotient. The West Coast's rate is probably high because of the large number of people who move there after retirement and bring with them the increased suicide rale that goes with advancing years. Another factor is that the West Coast attracts the ambitious and restless who are inclined to react...
Ideology played a minimal part in the elections. Indeed, there was little but the word Republican to unite the G.O.P.'s nine winning Governors. Arizona's Jack Williams and Nevada's Paul Laxalt stand close to Goldwater, while Idaho's Don Samuelson stands, if possible, to the right of Barry. Colorado's John Love, on the other hand, is more of the Scranton stripe while New Mexico's David Cargo and Oregon's Tom McCall would agree on most issues with Nelson Rockefeller or Jacob Javits...