Word: redrawing
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...district was considered a possible sacrifice during the redistricting, after an initial plan joined two Newton districts so that incumbents would face each other in the upcoming race. Rather than run against each other, the two women joined forces to save their districts with a plan to redraw Cambridge lines...
...this case, is what divides the U.S. into 435 congressional districts. Every ten years, using new census information, legislatures across the country redraw lines for their states? congressional districts to accommodate shifts in population. What changes did the 2000 count turn up? The new numbers reveal a continuing shift of population from the Northeast to the South and West. For example, New York and Pennsylvania, both Democrat-friendly states, lost two congressional seats each. Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Mississippi are also losing one seat each. On the other hand, Republican-friendly states like Arizona, Texas, Florida...
...aware of the palpable failure involved in legitimizing the rebels. Far from stabilizing the region's ethnic conflicts, it actually sends the message that nothing succeeds quite as well as resorting to arms - and that creates an incentive for nationalist extremists to keep on fighting to redraw Balkan borders. The Macedonian insurgency began with small groups of men infiltrated from NATO-controlled Kosovo, who then launched attacks on security force personnel. And despite some verbal wrist-slapping from NATO, the reward for that strategy may turn out to be a place at the negotiating table to determine Macedonia's future...
...Proof of how bad things have become was supplied by a proposal from the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts that Macedonia and Albania swap villages, an implausible scheme that would redraw the borders and could trigger a new round of ethnic cleansing. That idea too was dismissed, thankfully. Macedonian government forces, meanwhile, continued a two-week-old offensive along the Kosovo border that has killed several civilians and forced thousands to flee. The government accuses rebels of keeping 10,000 civilians coralled as human shields. "We can hardly wait to get orders to move on and finish...
...recognized as an official language, want a proper census so that they're represented in government proportionate to their actual number. They want greater representation in the police force, want to hear their own language on national TV and so on. They're saying they don't want to redraw borders or create a separate entity, but that they want to be equal partners in Macedonia...