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They have appealed for free speech and press, and end to rampant corruption in government and more funding for education...
...press conference at which the plan was announced. He went on to castigate the administration of Mayor Marion Barry, saying it "has failed to serve its citizens." Finally, he disclosed a set of measures that may put more dealers behind bars but is likely to do little to curb rampant drug use. Local police will get help from 82 federal agents. A 500-bed detention facility will be built in the District and more beds will be available in a federal prison in Maryland. Drug treatment will gain only 300 beds instead of the 1,040 the city asked...
...city has no real policy as far as development goes," he said. "I and many other residents feel that development has gone too far. They feel that the city needs more housing instead of rampant commercial development...
Smokestack chasing, as the practice of wooing factories has become known, is rampant in small-town America. Although often portrayed as a response to problems in the farming sector, in many cases the search is an effort to replace the industrial jobs lost in the 1980s, says Kenneth Deavers, a chief economist for the Agriculture Department. Farming and related businesses account for only about one-eighth of rural employment. Attracting new industries to a small town can be tricky. "A lot of these firms are gypsies. They fly from one set of subsidies to another," notes Mark Lapping, dean...
...Daily Mail's disclosure caused something of a feeding frenzy among some other newspapers. At week's end there were rampant reports that British authorities had identified those responsible for causing the explosion aboard Flight 103 and were on the verge of making an arrest. Those reports were dismissed by a government official as "total nonsense...