Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Range after rocky range, the mountains of northern Nevada soar above the arid flats. From the air their sagebrush cloaks seem as soft as crumpled velvet. Suddenly a series of gigantic holes looms below, so huge that if they were the size of anthills, the ore trucks and bulldozers scurrying over them would be the smallest of ants. "Some people see these holes and think they're hideous," muses John Livermore, a tall, lanky exploration geologist from Reno. "Others think how wonderful it is that man can do something...
...gold. In the early days of the invisible-gold rush, a ton of ore might contain a few tenths of an ounce of gold. Today that minuscule amount would be considered high grade. Says Livermore: "They're mining deposits that we would have considered waste rock back in 1961." Nevada mines are now digging up a ton of rock to get back as little as 0.025 oz. of gold...
...camera provides fine angles of Nevada, Ohio, and California settings. Fraker shoots from a low, upward angle, framing expansive vistas inside four-story jails and outside suburban homes. Scenes of Jimmie at work as an airplane engineer, combined with Howard Shore's music (he composed scores for After Hours and Big), seem like an American Airlines commercial. That's how slick they...
...energy went into developing a body of law and a bureaucracy that would do the job. As a result, the two regulatory agencies that enforce the formidable Casino Control Act spend $59 million annually to police twelve casinos, in contrast to $15.7 million for 285 casinos in Nevada. The two agencies can, in the words of Carl Zeitz, a former member of the casino-control commission, fairly claim to have "legitimized the industry" in New Jersey. But with all its attention focused on the Mob, the state let eight years pass before establishing a mechanism to collect revenues...
...Former Nevada Senator Chic Hecht, 60, who has been nominated as Ambassador to the Bahamas, was more noted for his malapropisms than for any legislative accomplishment during his single term on Capitol Hill. Hecht once declared that he opposed a "nuclear-waste suppository" in his state. In his list of qualifications, he noted that the "life-style of the Bahamas is similar to the life-style of Las Vegas...