Word: nevadas
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SITTING ON A BALE OF BARLEY destined for his cattle, Dick Carver gets just a little misty eyed as he recalls the moment that propelled him to leadership of a rebellion now sweeping the West. Usually mild mannered and affable, the Nevada rancher and Nye County commissioner reached a point last year when he had had enough. To him, federal intrusion into the daily life of his county had simply grown too great, so on July 4, 1994--Independence Day--he took the law into his own hands. His weapon of choice: a rusting, yellow D-7 Caterpillar bulldozer...
Californians are discovering the poisonous persistence of those roots. Attracted by the beauty of the Sierra Nevada foothills and easy access to such cities as Sacramento and Stockton, new arrivals have swelled the population of the Mother Lode from 400,000 in 1980 to about 700,000 today, creating new boomtowns where old ones once stood. But many residents have come to view the tens of thousands of abandoned mines as health hazards. Such concerns have halted planned housing and commercial developments and raised demands for cleanup projects that could take years to complete and cost hundreds of millions...
...began to talk about how they might get the event back on a regular basis. A.B.C. agreed to come back every third year if the city would build a first-class permanent facility. Armed with that commitment and one from the Women's International Bowling Congress, Reno persuaded the Nevada legislature to raise the hotel-room tax by a point and dedicate the proceeds to the project. The stadium's real goal is to promote the city and draw tourist dollars to its hotels, casinos and other facilities. "It's a self-perpetuating deal," Pearson says. "The more bowlers...
...Reno has been lapped by Las Vegas in the race to capture the imagination of visitors to Nevada. There was a glut of hotel-casino space after a late '70s building boom and "for much of the 1980s, Reno was the wallflower of the casino industry," says Bill Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno. But four years ago, the city staked much of its future on bowling. And the gamble is paying off. The stadium's inaugural event, the 92nd annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress...
...every sport needs a showplace, and now Reno has bowling's. It remains an open question, according to Eadington, whether the extra business drawn by the facility will be enough to keep the North Nevada gaming industry healthy and growing over time. Reno is still the kind of city where the railroad tracks run right through the middle of downtown, no matter how many welcome bowlers go up outside the Reno Turf Club. But for Pearson on a recent Saturday, what he sees as he looks down on the 18th annual Reno Nisei Invitational is good news enough: 80 clean...