Word: peoria
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Both candidates have promised to keep talking tax cuts right into November. After that, reality will set in, no matter who wins. No President can wave a wand and change the tax code. As Representative Ray LaHood, the Illinois Republican, noted after introducing Bush at a rally in Peoria last week, "Congress will have some say about it." Whether or not Republicans retain their majority, it's unlikely that a sharply divided House and Senate would pass either plan in its current form. But don't tell Bush and Gore that; they're having too much fun jumping hip deep...
...Bush: Peoria, Ill.; Chesterfield...
...team East Coast Hockey League in attendance their first four seasons, averaging 10,500 fans per game--more than the (nominally) Big League New York Islanders drew this year. Of course, the Gators are a winning team, at week's end up two games to none over the Peoria Rivermen in the ECHL finals...
...sixth book, Life So Far: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster; 399 pages), Friedan gives us the fullest, most candid account of her experience in the vortex of that revolution, and the toll it took on her personal life. She writes with poignant honesty of her loneliness growing up Jewish in Peoria, Ill. ("Mostly, my mother made me feel bad about myself"); her fascination with communism after graduating from Smith College; and the strain of her 22-year marriage to Carl Friedan. After the success of The Feminine Mystique, her husband, who had originally encouraged her research, grew jealous of her success...