Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience intones. Since 1988, when Congress opened the way for Indian reservations to set up full-scale gambling, casinos have moved from being the private preserve of two states--Nevada and New Jersey--into the American mainstream. With 126 Native American tribes reaping profits from gaming, commercial companies argued for equal rights. So far, 24 states have legalized casinos, while 37 have embraced lotteries, lured by the prospect of easy money in hard fiscal times. And the games have begun to crossbreed: lottery agencies have added instant-cash video poker and keno games, racetracks have expanded into off-track betting...
...influence of gaming's political contributions, state-lottery advertising, gambling-related crime and Internet betting. "The moral, social, economic and political ramifications of gambling are far too great to go unaddressed," says Republican Representative Marge Roukema from New Jersey, a state that has the second biggest gaming industry after Nevada. "We must carefully evaluate what has become an uncontrollable epidemic that has destroyed peoples' lives and families...
...Nevada Republican Representative John Ensign calls the proposed panel "a thinly veiled disguise for future regulation of the gaming industry." That has been the casinos' worst fear ever since the Clinton Administration last year floated a 4% federal gaming tax--only to drop it after 31 Governors protested. In the past three years gambling has become one of the top five industries donating to political campaigns. That money no doubt ensures some entree now that the casinos' furious lobbying campaign against the federal panel--led by former G.O.P. chairman Frank Fahrenkopf--is turned on the U.S. Senate...
...agent, a tour, deals in the works. Before the nationals, the big money in skating bypassed this modest team. Even before the tragedies of the early '90s, life had not been easy. Jess Galindo had been a busy trucker, carting rocket fuel from Gilroy, California, to Carson City, Nevada. When both his younger children pleaded for skating lessons, he provided them--and settled for a mobile home. Rudy and his mother Margaret, who used to push the living-room furniture aside so he could "skate" at home, still live there...
...NIMBY writ large, no state wants such a site in its backyard. As the nation's stockpile of spent fuel reached 30,000 tons, activists seized the issue as a way to hobble the industry, and the Energy Department announced that a permanent facility planned for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, wouldn't be ready until 2010; Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary now puts its chances of opening at no better than fifty-fifty. Bills to create temporary sites are stalled in both houses of Congress...