Word: district
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Graham announced she would run a "sticker campaign" against Thompson in the November general election, when he--for lack of a Republican opponent--will be the only one on the ballot for the 28th Middlesex District House seat. Graham plans to ask supporters to put stickers bearing her name and address on the write-in blanks inside their computer ballots' paper envelopes...
...going to really have to love a person to go out and do that," Johnson said of the district's voters...
...course, there are service-industry women: in certain hands, Seoul's rowdiness can turn to raunchiness. The body trade flourishes in the G.I. bars of Itaewon, and the city's ubiquitous barbershops have little to do with cutting hair. At Miari Texas (the name for the red-light district in the Miari area) rows upon rows of open-fronted stores, as many as 200 in all, are lined up along a busy main road. All of them are blindingly lighted and decorated in nouveau Vegas style -- frilly pink rooms smothered in mirrors, watercolors, fish tanks and color-coordinated teddy bears...
Ironically, it is in battle areas such as the heavily Catholic Falls Road district of West Belfast that optimists see Northern Ireland's best chance for ending the killing cycles. Despite the violence and unrelenting tension with Ulster's Protestant majority, daily life for Northern Ireland's Catholics has improved in some respects. Thanks to a $2 billion investment in public housing, for example, the proportion of Belfast dwellings judged unfit for human habitation has shrunk from 25% in 1974 to 10% today. The main beneficiaries have been Catholic residents. Building on that, British and Irish moderates hope, will eventually...
After a series of successful attacks against British forces, the outlawed I.R.A. has suffered a string of mishaps and setbacks. In the Catholic Ardoyne district of Belfast, police last week confiscated 200 pounds of explosives and predicted that the I.R.A. was planning a "horrific remainder to 1988." That followed the arrests in Waldfeucht, West Germany, of two I.R.A. suspects by a border guard who discovered weapons in their car during a random search. Waldfeucht is only 16 miles from Rheindalen, headquarters for the 67,000 British troops stationed in the Federal Republic...