Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if Republicans win the floor vote in Congress, Democrats will try to make them pay at the polls later by telling voters that the G.O.P. plan went too far. For Representative Ray LaHood of Illinois, a Republican freshman, the question is literally whether it will play in Peoria. Television spots blasting his party's proposals are already running in his district. Calls to his office have been divided, he says, between people who are mad at the ads and people who are mad at the Republicans. "There is an understanding that we are going to do something with Medicare...
...drag that plays in Peoria, pays at the box office and preys on filmgoers everywhere...
...bill constitutes a grand, laissez-faire experiment with a $700 billion industry. The result may be more choice and cheaper service, but of a different sort, says Ratan -- "like when shopping malls replace downtown stores: you have more choice, but it's the same choice in Dubuque or Peoria or Los Angeles...
Carter was born in Peoria, Ill, and "moved around a lot for no reason. My mom was not into setting down." Most of Carter's childhood was spent in Burlington, lowa ("a town nobody's heard of I'm sure") but lived all over Oklahoma, Arizona, Kansas, Texas at various points. Even Carter says she isn't really sure why her mother was always on the move. "Ask her," she says. "I've always woundered. She had wanderlust. She was young." Tracey's mother confirms Tracey's suggestion. "My biggest amibition in life was to travel. I had Tracey before...
Travel agents said last week that few passengers were canceling flights, despite their increased anxiety. Said Chicago travel agent Carol Peters: "A lot of people see these things as acts of God." But the Rev. John Peter Pham, a Catholic priest flying from Chicago to Peoria, disagreed: "I would object to blaming God for plane crashes when they are really due to human error or some other negligence...