Word: reno
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...kind of apolitical open mind he was known for as a local judge and U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Named to the DOJ's No. 2 job a year earlier, he served as the contact point for the sprawling independent-counsel probes commissioned by his boss, Janet Reno, into everything from an Arkansas land deal to the firing of the White House's travel office. So when Bennett asked for a meeting late the next day, Holder quickly acceded with an invitation to his office...
...failure to make up one's mind between two clearly differentiated candidates as an act of ignorance or dishonesty. Some voters may pretend to be undecided just so they can seem unbiased and high-minded. I asked the psychologist Steven Hayes of the University of Nevada, Reno, a former president of the highly regarded professional group now known as the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, about what's really going through the minds of the undecided. He told me in an e-mail that people often delay making a decision when "the consequences [of that decision] could be severely...
...struggle. The government was advocating for a second-class First Amendment and constitutional status for the Internet. That was very frightening. Nobody had any idea how it was going to go and I'm very proud that we won, 9-0, in a Supreme Court case called Reno v. ACLU...
...shocked foreign debtors. There is only one piece of investment advice anyone needs, and it has been accurate for over 5,000 years: buy gold. Gold has always represented the principle that you can't get something for nothing; something that America forgot a long time ago. Dan McCoy, Reno, Nevada...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, which put the nation's unemployment rate at 6.1%. Shutoffs of electricity and gas are rising as families struggle to pay bills with the onset of winter weather across much of the country. And tent cities are beginning to pop up in places like Reno, Nev., and Seattle for the first time in decades...