Word: montana
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Kansas City quarterback Joe Montana reportedly will retire because he doesn't expect to win a fifth Super Bowl, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Montana, who led the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl victories, injured his left knee in December. He reportedly wants to have knee surgery that would end his career while letting him remain active without pain. Sources told the Mercury News that Chief's president Carl Peterson wants Montana, 38, to publicly pin his decision on the injury instead of the team's prospects. So far, both the Chiefs and Montana's agent...
...found in New York City or Washington D.C., which have some of the most restrictive gun laws and yet some of the highest crime rates in the nation? Or is it in Alaska or Montana, which have very lenient gun laws and yet much lower crime rates...
...response to N.R.A.-backed lawsuits brought by county sheriffs in four states--Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi and Montana--judges have also ruled Brady unconstitutional because it compels localities to adopt national standards. In Val Verde County, which covers 3,240 sq. mi. in southwestern Texas, sheriff J.R. Koog says his 15 deputies are stretched to the limit. Echoing the Capitol Hill debate over unfunded mandates, he complains about the ``horrendous effect'' on his operations budget. ``The government can operate in the red, pink or whatever,'' he says. ``I have to operate in the black...
...young man growing up on a vast Montana ranch early in this century, Tristan is unduly influenced by One Stab (Gordon Tootoosis), the Native American who narrates the tale in movie Indianspeak--stilted language with many references to nature (``It was in the moon of the red grass,'' he says solemnly when he wants to date something). Tristan takes to cutting out the hearts of fallen prey to free their spirit and develops a lifelong, mutually unhealthy relationship with a grizzly bear. He never fully escapes the call of the primitive, but at a certain point he does begin carrying...
...Responsible Motherhood is composed of 1,500 women who want to liberalize Colorado's concealed-weapon law so they can carry handguns more readily. ``We have a growing obligation to protect ourselves,'' says Becki Tschirpke, the group's vice president. At the same time, from the forests of Montana to the orange groves of Florida, local militias have formed to do battle against perceived incursions by the Federal Government into individual rights...