Word: nevadas
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...teacher, moved to Boulder City, Nev., after retirement. There they turned a long-standing passion for design, decoration and fixing up old homes into a business by starting Boulder City Upgraders. Since 2000, the two have renovated and sold one house and have begun work on three others in Nevada and California. After expenses, the business brings in from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, according to Kafka. "We wanted to supplement our income. Retirement money doesn't earn that much in the stock market today," she says. "This is a great, fulfilling way to keep busy, productive...
...plot, which travels from Peking to Nevada, New York and London in search of a sacred scroll?but never makes it to Shanghai?is serviceable. The script contrives to convene every Victorian celebrity, from Jack the Ripper and Arthur Conan Doyle to Queen Victoria herself. The stars have an easy rapport, and share it graciously with Singapore TV-diva Fann Wong, who's quite appealing as Chon's sister. It's all disposable, second-rate fun. But at least director David Dobkin had the bright idea to let Chan, for the first time in a U.S. film, supervise the action...
...Healthy Ma has a one-year contract with the Shanghai Sharks, a shaved skull, a black Fubu do-rag, a red Phat Farm sweatshirt, a U.S. green card, and an American wife and two little sons in Henderson, Nevada. At 33, balanced on a weak right knee, he yearns for one last NBA dance...
...other side of the aisle are two of the Democrats' shrewdest floor operatives: minority leader Tom Daschle and his deputy, Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who are no doubt eager to lay traps for Frist and his party. "Republicans claim they want to support civil rights," Daschle says coyly. "We want to give them ample opportunity to demonstrate that." Democratic staff members are rewriting their bosses' talking points to emphasize that poorer minorities will reap little from Bush's tax cuts compared with the wealthy. Senator Ted Kennedy hopes to force Republicans to vote on civil rights--related measures like affirmative...
...minority votes. And the damage among some white voters could be even greater: Lott may have tainted his party among educated suburban professionals and managers who are sympathetic to the G.O.P. on economic issues but are repulsed by any hint of coded appeals to prejudice. Senator John Ensign, a Nevada Republican, says of Lott's misstep, "It will take a lot of work for us to negate...