Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when hard-pressed cities try to tax their citizens more to pay for needed services, it often backfires, provoking another wave of middle-class flight to suburbs where property levies are lower. Moreover, urban government's attempts to expand their revenues are often thwarted. Hartford, Connecticut, where a third of the population lives below the poverty line, has an effective property-tax rate 66% higher than that of the well-to-do suburb of Farmington next door. Last year Hartford city manager Raymond Eugene Shipman proposed a payroll tax on the thousands of commuters who flock to the city...
...case against four white members of the Etowah County commission. For decades these officials had one prime function: supervising the county road budget, with each determining how funds would be spent within his district. In 1986 the commission settled a long-running voting-rights lawsuit by agreeing to expand the body from four to six members; they also agreed that the two new members would have the same duties as the four holdovers. Presley was elected from a newly created 65% black district in the county seat of Gadsden. Eight months later, the four white holdovers rammed through a resolution...
...most black politicians, who come to power representing mostly black constituencies, these candidates have won elections in predominantly white jurisdictions by forging biracial coalitions. Their victories suggest that many white voters are willing to judge black politicians by their performance in office rather than by their race. Blacks will expand the limits of their political power once more of them begin to do the same...
While both definitions are expansions of the definition of rape, the distinction between the two is crucial. Heinicke's definition limits rape to those cases in which sexual intercourse occurs despite the woman's expressed objections. It does expand state law by counting as rape cases in which the victim is "physically unable" to express unwillingness...
Here, above all, is where the newly proposed definition is attempting to expand the current one. While the Date Rape Task Force did wish to have an even broader definition of rape, one in which any sexual encounter that did not have explicit consent of both parties would constitute rape, this definition was deemed too strict to be feasibly instituted. To be politically blunt, such a definition would never have passed the UC full council...