Word: sequoia
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...Sequoia Way is easy for travelers to overlook. Nestled in the middle-class neighborhood of Village Park on the south side of Sacramento, Calif., it is an unremarkable stretch of single-story frame houses. But if you stroll a bit along the winding road and visit Sequoia Way's residents, you will quickly realize there's something extraordinary about this street...
Condit slipped out of sight about May 10, avoiding reporters who had staked out his office and his apartment in the Adams-Morgan section of Washington, canceling a fund raiser and rushing off after accompanying President Bush to Sequoia National Park. The married Democrat, 53, has not said a word publicly but has issued written statements through his staff. In the first statement, Condit called Chandra a "good friend" (they had met when she came to visit a friend in his office shortly after she became an intern in the Justice Department's Bureau of Prisons) and pledged...
...Like his visits to the Sequoia National Park and the Everglades over the last two weeks, the Rose Garden speech was more concerned with making Bush look environmentally conscious than it was in offering a brave new approach to the issue of global warming. The park visits were cooked up months ago to "to solve the arsenic problem," as one senior White House aide put it. The "arsenic problem," was the first blow to the administration's environmental image after the White House announced a review of last-minute Clinton-imposed regulations on the level of arsenic in the drinking...
Jeffords' defection "isn't going to change what the President believes," insists Bush counselor Karen Hughes. But the package is being rewrapped. Worried that Democrats have succeeded in painting him as hard-right, Bush is going green with trips to Sequoia National Park last week and the Florida Everglades this week. Speeches are being salted with soothing "compassion-speak." Moderate Senate Republicans are being watched like Cuban athletes on tour. Bush has invited Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee to a private dinner and phoned Chafee's colleague Maine's Olympia Snowe to congratulate her on the child-credit increase...
...Machines like this are readily available right now, from companies like Sequoia Pacific Voting Equipment Inc., MicroTouch Systems Inc. and Fidlar Doubleday Inc. They run about $3,500 apiece if you buy in bulk, and they work. No chads. No recounts. No doubt...