Word: geranium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carefully manicured, geranium-laced lawn of John and Marie Kraft's brick bungalow on Chicago's Northwest Side bespeaks a sense of neighborhood pride. But as the other residents of this quiet street know, the Krafts' vigorous domesticity has an ugly side -- one that is about to cost them the property they have tended so lovingly...
...Geranium...
...this of environmental concern. Debate about conservation vs. development is not exactly new in a state that has long sought to reconcile its feverish growth with the desire for a healthy, outdoor way of life. In a classic, cyclical conflict between the "smokestack" of job-creating development and the "geranium" of quality of life, public opinion today is clearly on the side of the geranium. "Environment, growth and crime are the big issues in this race," says Feinstein's chief strategist William Carrick. "In a way they are all rolled up into one: losing control of the California dream...