Word: nevadas
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Whenever the subject of nuclear waste comes up in American politics, Nevada is quick to proclaim, “not in my backyard.” Recently, Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn used a federal law to veto President Bush’s order to build a permanent waste storage facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Last week, the House Energy Committee agreed to override that veto. When the full House votes next week, it too should override the veto...
...child is a Roman Catholic priest. In fact, the perpetrators are a disturbingly diverse lot. There's the Chicago-area nurse who molested up to 18 patients, including a 9-year-old girl who had suffered a brain aneurysm and later died. There's the 33-year-old Nevada day-care worker who committed hundreds of sexual acts on at least nine children, mostly ages 2 and 3--and videotaped them. Some of the most heartbreaking allegations involve the American Boychoir School, a top choral program in Princeton, N.J. More than a dozen alumni from the 1960s...
Service-industry workers may be the public faces of their companies, but they often complain that they don't get heard by their bosses. So at Isle of Capri Casinos, which operates 14 gaming establishments in Mississippi, Nevada and four other states, employees are being encouraged to e-mail their concerns to top management using "Speak-Up" computer terminals located on the casino floors. "You hear some tough things," says president Jack Gallaway. "But 90% of the tough things are right, so we have to listen." Employees can send the messages anonymously or provide their names; it's dealer...
...private disappointment at first. For four years she sat with her suspicion that while her manuscript sat in the Viking offices someone working for King lifted the essence of her work and copied it into Desperation, a novel about an ancient evil spirit released from a mine into a Nevada desert...
...doesn't God have stern words on the subject? Christie Smith, 37, a Nevada writer, says she felt guilty when she fell in love with her first cousin's son Mark. "I was trying so hard to convince myself not to have these feelings," she recalls, "that I went to the Bible looking for confirmation that it was wrong. And what I found was the exact opposite: support for cousin marriages." The patriarch Jacob married two of his first cousins, Rachel and Leah; Isaac and Rebekah were first cousins once removed. (The Roman Catholic Church has opposed cousin marriages...