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Harry Reid

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Harry Reid, assistant Democratic leader, or party whip, in the U.S. senate, was born in the small mining town of Searchlight, Nevada on December 2, 1939. In 1970, he was elected to a four-year term as Nevada's lieutenant governor and in 1977 he was appointed chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission and was honored with Industry Leadership Award in 2001 by the American Gaming Association.

Author: Thomas, Cullen F.
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2003
Legislators, Senators, Reid, Harry

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Lee Ann Newsom, Paleoethnobotanist

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Lee Ann Newsom is a paleoethnobotanist and an associate professor of archaeological anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She is a specialist in subfield known as 'environmental archaeology' which means research based on analysis of ancient plant remains recovered from archaeological and paleontological deposits.

Author: Thomas, Cullen F.
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2004
Ethnobotanists, Newsom, Lee Ann

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Chris Cooper: Actor

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Chris Cooper, an Academy-Award winning actor, feels that a career in acting is a very intense working relationship with the other members of the cast and crew. Cooper has appeared in more than three dozen big-screen and television movies and is often referred to as a consummate character actor.

Author: Thomas, Cullen F.
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2004
Motion picture actors and actresses, Movie actors, Cooper, Chris

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Subjects list: United States, Personality profile, Biography
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