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- noun Any member of a
Native American tribe in westernWashington state, near the Nisqually River.
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Examples
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Then in late June they drove me out to a small railroad stop called Nisqually Station on the edge of the Fort Lewis Military Reservation.
General Ike John S.D. Eisenhower 2003
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In the left foreground is the canyon of Tahoma Fork of the Nisqually, which is fed by the Tahoma glaciers.] [Illustration: Copyright, 1897, By E.S. Curtis.
The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' John H. Williams
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When the AWV survived the Nisqually Quake with fairly minor damage, the disappointment of what Ivan quite accurately calls the "urban design cult" was palpable.
Tunnel Construction Could Be Delayed One Year « PubliCola 2010
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In 2001, after the Nisqually quake, WSDOT trotted out their most expensive tunnel designs in the $10+billion range and several consequentially less expensive designs to arrive at Tunnelite in 2007, my choice Summer 2001 with detailed drawings submitted that disappeared.
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010
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I rode out the Nisqually quake on the 14th floor of a swaying highrise here in downtown Seattle.
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Centered 14 miles northwest of Seattle near Kingston, the quake was from the “same general source” as the 6.8 Nisqually quake from 2001.
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Uncommon controversy;: Fishing rights of the Muckleshoot, Puyallup, and Nisqually Indians.
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The article also had a map showing the extent of the Nisqually glacier on Mt. Rainier.
Sound Politics: Please, no jokes about "global cooling" 2007
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Tunnels are inherently strong – for example, no Seattle area tunnels were damaged during the 2001 Nisqually earthquake.
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It took the near-tragic Nisqually earthquake of 2001 to make people wake up and say "Oh, wait, maybe we do need the state to put some money into safe bridges, retrofitting buildings, and emergency preparedness."
Initiative 1033 would cripple our ability to invest in infrastructure, just like Initiative 601 2009
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