Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Justice Department's second-ranking official. No one on the committee has raised serious doubts about his fitness for the job. But the G.O.P. members have been holding the nomination hostage while they take political pot shots at the Administration. "We're all political animals," admits Nevada Republican Paul Laxalt...
What is the state flower of Nevada...
...state flower of Nevada is the sagebrush...
...Taber learned that in Secret Service lingo, Blumenthal is known as "Fencing Master," and the Treasury as "Castle." "Besides talking freely about his economic views, Blumenthal obviously enjoyed recalling his early years, telling tales about working as a casino shill and a lighting man for a strip show in Nevada," says Taber. "After stories like that, it was difficult to turn the interview back to questions about the capital gains...
...business of gambling is exciting new interest far outside Nevada these days; casinos are scheduled to open next year in Atlantic City, N.J., and there is talk of legalizing them in Florida and possibly New York. Starting a casino, however, hardly gives investors a license to coin money, as the owners of some deficit-ridden Nevada operations have discovered: gambling is a fast-paced, cash-heavy business that, like any other, must be tightly run to turn a profit. How tightly, TIME Correspondent John Quirt learned by studying Harrah's, one of the oldest (it celebrated its 40th birthday...