Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cool Nevada morning air was filled with the quaking rumble of the 1972 Dodge Charger in front of me. A three-week-old blue 2003 Subaru WRX edged up behind me. We'd all been waiting for this moment for days or, in my case, a lifetime, and the deliciously deserted road beckoned. The Charger, rescued from a junkyard a decade ago and painted "Richard Petty blue," roared off when the light changed. It hit 100 m.p.h. with ease and sped toward the vanishing point down Highway...
...hardly unique. States across the nation are struggling with falling revenues and budget crises, and overall spending by the states is set to decline for the first time in 20 years. New York is hiking income and sales taxes, Alaska is charging higher fees on studded tires, and Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn is suing the state assembly for failing to pass a budget on time. In 2000, the states had rainy-day funds that totaled nearly $50 billion; last week only $6 billion of that was left. But California, with its $38 billion deficit, is in a class...
...Hollywood Boulevard to Universal Studios, it is not for Angelenos. Instead, L.A.’s coffee cognoscenti head to the Mecca of Mocha: the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. There are 104 branches of the Coffee Bean in Southern California, and, apart from a handful in Arizona and Nevada, not a single branch exists elsewhere in the country...
...river lacks a clear sense of direction." Oddly, Dyer's narrative also loses its sense of direction in the final chapter, just as he reaches what he has described throughout the book as the ultimate Zone?Burning Man, a weeklong celebration of self-expression held every year in the Nevada desert. He is able to describe his emotional collapse in explicit terms: "Everything had become scattered, fragmented. A day was not made up of 24 hours but of 86,400 seconds, and those did not flow into one another?so that, as a consequence, there was not enough time...
...food outlets all turn their employees at a rate of 150-300% a year, says SnagAJob CEO Shawn Boyer. Call centers and telemarketers also churn through their staffs quickly. If you can travel to find work, it may help to know that job growth is greatest in New Mexico, Nevada and Hawaii (as if you needed any more prodding to head for the beach...