Word: nevadas
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...western regional commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The graying, portly Ezell, 48, has taken an obscure job and made himself the point man in the Administration's war against illegal entry. He earns $68,000 a year to supervise 3,900 INS employees in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam, but if he were paid extra for every raid he has led and every word he has uttered in public--or by the amount of wrath he has aroused--Ezell would be rich. Not just a law enforcer, he is a crusader...
...maximum rate of 70%. Baxter said the money was earned income, like a salary, which was taxable at a top rate of 50%. In 1984 he filed suit, contending that his winnings were the product of skill and hard work. Last week the U.S. district court in Nevada agreed and ordered the IRS to give a refund with interest. Said Baxter: "Jack Nicklaus gets to file his prize money as earned income...
...throwback? 14 In a time of random violence and global tension, the U.S. projects power overseas with a fleet of formidable but vulnerable flattops. Reagan scraps two submarines to comply with SALT II, while a new mobile missile is studied. The furor intensifies over Michael Deaver's influence peddling. Nevada Senator and Reagan Pal Paul Laxalt cautiously eyes the presidency...
...years Paul Laxalt has played the supporting role of best friend to Ronald Reagan's star turn as leading man. His performance has been a polished one: the crisp, affable, silver-haired Nevada Senator has headed Reagan's presidential campaigns and become an essential backstage adviser to the man he used to go camping with when both were Western Governors. But now the script has the leading man retiring. As Laxalt, 63, surveys the potential replacements, he has begun publicly pondering that most common question of both politicians and second leads...
Laxalt, however, would carry a sizable handicap. What the oil industry is to Texas, gambling is to Nevada, and for some voters Laxalt would be tainted by association. After he was Governor of Nevada, Laxalt was the principal owner of the Ormsby House Hotel-Casino in Carson City. Laxalt is currently embroiled in a libel suit against McClatchy Newspapers, which reported that organized crime was involved in skimming nearly $2 million in receipts from the casino. Though the paper did not claim that Laxalt was involved in or knew about the illegal operation, he has vigorously pursued the lawsuit...