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...were smothered by globalization that started some 20 years ago. Pittsburgh never had a housing boom. How could it, when a quarter of the population evaporated when the jobs did? Pittsburgh's finances were so awful that it became a virtual ward of the state in 2003. Is your burg afraid of losing airline service? USAir's business crashed here in 2002. The spacious airport is half empty on a Sunday...
...January-to-June combat, millions of voters had skin in the game - their dreams of a woman President, or a black President; their hopes of restoring the Clinton dynasty, or their hopes of ending it; perhaps more prosaic investments in an Administration post, a consulship in a nice European burg or just a friendly ear in the White House. Politics is not just about instincts and ideologies - it's also about interests. And the winners get a bigger share of the satisfaction than the losers...
...time he came to the city. It was 15 years before, almost to the day, and the new President was in town to sell his economic plan. The 46-year-old baby boomer had seemed the very embodiment of the freshness and change that the people of this downtrodden burg on the edge of Appalachia had been praying for. They were giddy when he jogged through Yoctangee Park with the mayor in 3?F (-16?C) weather and dropped by their new McDonald's for a decaf. But it was the hope in his words that thrilled them most...
DEFINITION the ful gins-burg n. The appearance on all five political TV talk shows on the same Sunday morning...
When Frank Lorenti of Minturn, a rustic little burg down the road from the villageopolis of Vail in the Colorado mountains, put barbed wire up to keep snowmobilers off his property last winter, the town council responded by outlawing the spiked fencing altogether. Police chief Lorenzo Martinez agreed. "Considering the damage it could do, people don't think barbed wire is appropriate," he reported. "There are a lot of other types of fences...