Word: nevadas
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...smack against the California border and treats its high-cost, highly regulated neighbor the way a hummingbird does a flower. From 2000 to 2003, Reno has lapped up major operations of 17 California companies including Sun Microsystems and Charles Schwab, according to the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada, in addition to the 700,000-sq.-ft. distribution facility Amazon.com set up in 1999 and the third roasting-and-distribution center Starbucks opened. Microsoft, Dell and Pfizer all have operations there. An estimated 200,000 people migrate from California to Nevada each year, many with businesses...
...maternal grandmother, an extravagant spirit who, like many women in her family, tended toward "slight and major derangements." Her father, a hard-drinking depressive, leveraged one real estate deal after another with little money. "His idea of a relaxing way to make a payment was to drive to Nevada and shoot craps all night." The remembered details of family life yield vivid metaphors for her theme, none better than this: in a Sacramento house the Didions moved into in 1951, the gold silk organza curtains on the stairs hadn't been changed since 1907. They "hung almost two stories, billowed...
...Mike Huckabee and former Congressman Asa Hutchinson, the Republicans' best hopes for unseating Senator Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas. Representative Jennifer Dunn, the G.O.P.'s first choice to challenge Senator Patty Murray in Washington, and HUD Secretary Mel Martinez, a party favorite in Florida, have also said no. And in Nevada, G.O.P. Congressman Jim Gibbons has decided not to challenge Senate Democratic whip Harry Reid, who won his 1998 race by just 428 votes. "I see a very competitive fall in 2004," says Senator Jon Corzine, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee...
...public track at Nurburgring. Italians simply get in their cars. But in 65-m.p.h. America, the opportunity to hurtle down an empty, cop-free piece of concrete under a clear sky has been limited. One day soon it may not be. Though open-road racing began in Nevada in 1988, this year will see more sanctioned events--nine in three different states--than ever. Open-road racing takes place over a prescribed distance on closed public highways and under strict safety conditions. Most races are open to all comers who can pay the roughly $650 in fees and pass...
...road we raced on--93A from Wendover, in the state's northeast corner, south toward Ely--was smooth and well marked, with enough turns and hills to keep it challenging and still fast. I swept around curves at 95 m.p.h., took a moment to admire the Nevada mountains at 105 and waved at course workers at 110. I got used to scanning my field of vision miles out in front (as pilots do), to the hypersensitivity of the car, to movements of the wheel and the wind noise. I hit 120 when my co-pilot, Andy Monheiser, reminded...