Word: iowa
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...August, he launched a $200,000 national advertising campaign pushing his tax code in fourteen states, according to his press secretary. Iowa and New Hampshire, the first states for presidential primaries, were included in the campaign...
...fail to obtain medical treatment for their seriously ill children liable. However, a 1974 federal child-care program made funding contingent on the states' exempting faith-healing parents. That requirement no longer exists, but 41 states retain exemptions from local civil-abuse and -neglect laws. In Oregon, Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Ohio and West Virginia there are also exemptions from criminal homicide or manslaughter charges. Says Gustafson: "I've spent nights trying to figure out a way to bring the message to this church that you can't kill your kids on the basis of religious beliefs...
...reason. The list of presidential statements that are, as the euphemism goes, "at variance with the facts" is a long one, and those of us with a professional interest in such things have our favorites. There was the morning in 1995 when the President spoke to a group of Iowa farmers. "I am the only President who knew something about agriculture when I got there," he said, briefly forgetting his many predecessors--beginning with George Washington--who actually grew crops. A few months later he was in Selma, Calif., the "raisin capital of the world." What a coincidence! "I have...
...years, Peoria was the test-marketing capital of the nation before the equally unremarkable Des Moines, Iowa, stole away that distinction. Company after company brought their products to the heart of Illinois, assuming that if their TV dinners and stainless steel knives were good enough for Peorians, they were good enough for the rest of blue-collar America. The old vaudeville saying, "Will it play in Peoria?" took on new meaning as the city became a benchmark for the nation, helping to gauge American attitudes toward politics, religion and culture...
...legal aid certainly seems to have caught the eyes of Texas. The court panel, which enforces a statute against the unauthorized practice of law, initially won a 1992 ban against a manual that contained forms and instructions for creating a will. More recently, the committee sued Parsons Technology, an Iowa company that markets Quicken Family Lawyer software. The case is pending. And in a letter to Nolo last year, the panel expressed concern about the company's Living Trust Maker--2.0 software, which has sold 175,000 copies nationally. Panel chairman Mark Ticer, whose group mostly prosecutes individuals, sees...