Word: interest
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...Some people do have an interest in the macabre," Preservation and Facilities Manager Natalie M. Wampler said. "But I think more come for the horticulture and the history. Most people don’t come to do odd things...
Galbraith went on to accuse Eide of serving in the interest of Karzai rather than that...
...important conflict in U.S. history. The Peace Democrats of the 1860s became pejoratively known as Copperheads - after a Southeastern snake that attacks without warning - for their opposition to the Civil War. Peace Democrats were mainly recent settlers of the Midwest (Ohio, Indiana and Illinois) with Southern roots and an interest in maintaining the Union, and they made common cause with Northern groups who opposed emancipation and the draft. The antidraft riots of 1863 - dramatized in the 2002 Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York - were sparked by opposition to the government's recently passed Conscription Act and, in part...
...South and Midwest, have not attempted such bold reform, meaning they will probably be slower to adapt to potential new responsibilities. There is also a concern among some policy experts that state legislators, who could have a lot of control over reform implementation, are too beholden to local interest groups like small insurers and health systems. "There's no question that lobbyists win cheaper on the state level," says Len Nichols, a health economist at the New America Foundation. "With a set of [Arkansas] Razorbacks tickets for one weekend and they've got it." (See what health-care reform really...
...measures, implemented in February, 2008, had a marked effect: the value of wine imported into the city in 2008 surged by more than 80%. As wine shops, tasting seminars and cellars proliferated, more Hong Kong residents began taking an interest in drinking wine, not just investing in it. Said noted wine critic Jancis Robinson, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine: "I have never before, in my 30-plus years in wine, witnessed a government so consciously targeting the fine-wine market." (Watch Joel Stein drink his way through wine from ten different U.S. states...