Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compensation. You can "peg" your variometer here with no trouble at all -- i.e., rise faster than the 1,000 ft. a minute that the beeping rate-of-climb gauge will register. But great, eddying roils of turbulence called rotors wheel across the 14,000-ft. ridges of the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, sometimes shearing the big thermals and otherwise raising hell. "It's the roughest place in the world for hang gliding," says Lee, a member of the six-man U.S. team, here with pilots from 40 other countries for the World Hang Gliding Championships...
...physics and at 24 was about to go to graduate school at Columbia when she met and married Henry Reno, a 36-year-old police reporter for the Miami Herald. Tired of having his Danish surname, Rasmussen, mispronounced, he had picked his last name off a map of Nevada. The couple built a house out of cypress logs in the woods of rural Dade County; 43 years later, it survived Hurricane Andrew without losing more than a couple of shingles. In addition to the now legendary alligators, there were cows, beagles, macaws, raccoons, goats, geese, ponies, pigs and skunks...
...self-effacing to write her memoirs, but it was quite a story. She was a child of the frontier, born in scruffy Ely, Nevada; a daughter of the Depression, helping coax a living out of four acres of Southern California soil; a wife of the '50s, on the ladder to success. Christened Thelma Catherine Ryan, she was dubbed Pat by her Irish-American father, a miner, to mark her arrival on the eve of St. Patrick's Day. Eventually she made the nickname legal, but somehow she was always more a Thelma than a Patricia, the kind of girl that...
...launches an album of old and new songs and opens a 53-city U.S. tour to an ecstatic house in Reno, Nevada, Tina is in no hurry to see the film of her life. "Do you think I want to see Ike Turner hit somebody again?" she asks. "It's not enough that I was hit. Now I have to watch him hit somebody else? I don't need to see this movie, 'cause I saw it already. I lived...
...chairs and sends out a newsletter to senior citizens that features everything from pending state legislation to muffin recipes. On the other hand, Wynn continues to make headlines for investigations into the possible organized-crime connections of some of his top employees. Just last week he appeared before the Nevada Gaming Commission to defend his father's bookmaker, Charles Meyerson, whom Steve hired 13 years ago as a host for Atlantic City's Golden Nugget and who is paid $400,000 a year today to do the same job for the Mirage. Police had alleged that Meyerson arranged for free...