Word: states
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great grandfather, Bernhardt Vesper, acquired a 25,000-acre ranch in Cotulla, in the southern part of the state. Jeff would spend summers there with his grandparents, Lawrence Preston ("Pop") Gise and his wife Mattie Louise Strait (related to country singer George Strait...
...Jeff's favorite relative. A career government employee, he moved his family to Albuquerque, N.M., where he headed the former Atomic Energy Commission's operations in a seven-state region before retiring to the Cotulla ranch at a relatively early...
Bezos is beyond talking about his wealth or whether Amazon will be successful. Instead, he talks about a "nirvana" state of consumer service, in which you'll come to Amazon, and the one thing you've been looking for all your life will be featured on the page that day. You may not even know you've been looking for the thing or that it even exists, but since the site is so familiar with your consumption habits, it knows...
...computer assigns your order--a book, a game and a digital camera--to one of Amazon's seven U.S. distribution centers, five of which it opened this year. With 3 million sq. ft., Amazon has 1.5 times the floor space of the Empire State Building...
While most of the U.S. enjoyed a peaceful holiday weekend, the nation's law enforcement community quietly worked to preempt a New Year's catastrophe. In the Northwest the FBI tracked the lead of a Washington State airline employee who recalled selling a plane ticket for Las Vegas last week to Adbelmajed Dahoumane, the suspected accomplice of Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian man caught smuggling explosives across the U.S.-Canadian border. Dahoumane's destination raised a red flag - Las Vegas will host one of the nation's largest New Year's celebrations on its fabled strip. The feds continue to scour...