Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BROADWAY IN NEVADA...
...most immediate change in procedures took place at federal buildings. In Denver, uniformed guards were posted at day-care centers, and downtown parking meters around the U.S. courts complex were cloaked with red covers, banning curbside parking. In Nevada, Forest Service officers went on alert, patrolling in pairs out of concern about attacks by radical anti-environmentalists. In Washington, where the Library of Congress removed the Gutenberg Bible from its glass case and locked it in a basement vault, police distributed flyers to federal office workers that suggested questions they might ask callers who phone in bomb threats. In Newark...
Lance Mazmanian Henderson, Nevada Via America Online...
Accordingly, citizens' tax burdens would balloon to support the dead weight of these redundant yet autonomous bureaucracies. States with small populations would feel the inefficiencies most. California's bureaucracy would easily be able to handle Nevada's comparatively tiny needs, but no, Nevada has to have its own departments for its own block grants. States would be smart to combine their efforts, but then, isn't that exactly what they...
...Burnett says he and several magazine staff members were called last year before a federal grand jury in Portland that was investigating Shannon's involvement in a series of arsons. When the indictment was handed up, only Shannon was charged in attacks at nine clinics in Oregon, California, Nevada and Idaho. Prosecutors and federal agents are still pressuring her to implicate others. "There is no question that the government thinks she possesses a wealth of knowledge about the radical end of the antiabortion movement," says Andrew Bates, her lawyer. But so far, Shannon has refused to talk...