Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than congestion: nobody wants to be caught downtown after dark. By 6 Elder-Beerman, the last big department store since Lazarus closed its doors in January, is nearly empty. Outside a few remaining stragglers hurry to catch buses for the outlying suburbs and strip malls, leaving behind an uneasy mix of panhandlers, police and security guards. The only other substantial signs of life on a recent Monday night -- besides a few business travelers huddled in hotel bars -- are the homeless hanging around outside the St. Vincent de Paul shelter and the dozens of agitated voters gathered just across the street...
Even in De Kalb County, Georgia, where unemployment hovers below the national average at 6.3%, Bush faces a formidable challenge. Nestled east of Atlanta, De Kalb provided the backdrop to the movie Driving Miss Daisy, and is home to a diverse mix of rich and poor, white and black, Republican and Democrat, as well as longtime residents and new immigrants from the North. Dukakis narrowly won De Kalb with 50.2% of the vote in 1988; at the moment, Bush trails Clinton by a daunting...
...Montgomery County, Ohio, an area that incorporates Dayton, Bush is in a statistical dead heat with Clinton and would win in a three-way contest with Texas industrialist H. Ross Perot, who remains on the ballot in Ohio. When voters who were leaning toward Bush are added to the mix, the President wins the county by 7 points. Such support for the incumbent ensures that Ohio will be one of the closest contests this fall. The Buckeye State, admits Clinton's field marshal Mark Longabaugh, is "going to be bare knuckles...
...term family values is inherently subjective. The use of the issue in this year's politics blends a yearning idealism with a breathtaking cynicism. On another level, that mix reflects the tendency of entertainment and politics -- and their values -- to merge confusingly with one another. The season's first episode of the television sitcom Murphy Brown next month will have Murphy's reply to the moral criticism leveled last spring by Vice President Dan Quayle -- continuing the argument over Murphy's single motherhood that showed Republican strategists just how powerful the family-values issue might be in this campaign...
...TOPLESS DANCERS. Rick's cabaret is distributing White House-style invitations that promise "an evening of politically correct fun and excitement." "I'm making more than a brain surgeon right now," boasts one entrepreneurial "lap dancer." Other club owners offer fax machines and conference rooms to customers seeking to mix politics with pleasure. But Houston authorities are ready to pounce in case drug dealing or prostitution occurs. "For anyone with an elephant badge who thinks they can violate the law," warns Harris County lawman Terry O'Rourke, "we have jail space waiting...