Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unified voice, for there are corporation types advocating business tax cuts sitting next to small business spokespeople urging payroll tax elimination. Minimum wage detractors live next to work-study students. Young people for and against protectionism come together from across the country, from Alabama to Vermont. The depth and breadth of ideas reflect the wide array of interests that older Republicans cherish. If the future of the party rests in its youth, then the 21st century will bring much of the same diversity of ideology that challenges Big Tent Republicanism...
When TWA Flight 800's passenger list was finally released, the grief it itemized was distributed evenly, with two exceptions: Stevenson, Alabama, which lost five citizens; and Montoursville. The French club sent 16 kids, ranging in age from 14 to 18, to fly to Paris, along with five adult chaperones. Since then, America has seen a hundred snapshots of the town's grief: a boy in a turned-back baseball cap ducks his head in silent contemplation; a woman comforts a girl in front of a sign exhorting students to have a safe summer. A boy who played sports with...
...greatest track athlete of all time, of course, was Jesse Owens. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Owens said his secret was, "I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible." In Berlin in '36 he began his assault on Hitler's Aryan-superiority theory with his victory in the 100, the first of his four gold medals. African Americans would in fact win all but three Olympic 100s from 1932 to 1968. The blessing of modern professionalism is that runners can keep running; Owens had to resort to racing thoroughbreds in exhibitions...
...Carolina; knocking on doors in Boston to organize hospital workers. At least 30 of them will be winding through the Deep South on a bus tour to reach low-wage health-care workers, stopping along the way at civil rights touchstones such as the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama...
...shadowy supplier. We need a national campaign to cut off the flow." Some cities have already moved to battle teen crime with pilot versions of the federal plan launched Monday, most of which have been largely successful. In New York, for instance, federal agents found that one store in Alabama had supplied at least 4,000 guns that had been seized in the city; 35 people were arrested for bringing the guns to New York and selling them there. In Boston, according to The Times, the gun program and increased police efforts against guns have been so successful that...