Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this. Going into Thursday's showdown on crime, Democratic head counters thought they had a margin of one or two votes. Instead, nearly a fourth of all House Democrats balked. Most of them were rural lawmakers susceptible to the National Rifle Association, which opposed the bill's ban on 19 kinds of assault weapons and related models. Because the measure would also establish 50 new offenses punishable by the death penalty, which falls disproportionately on black defendants, 10 members of the Congressional Black Caucus voted against the bill...
...faith in Cevallos than they have in the PRI." As for election fraud, a record 32,000 foreign and domestic observers are manning the polls, and international auditors have given the set-up a clean bill of health. Still, Lopez says, "You never know if the people in the rural areas got the message that this time...
...fervent amens. This summer the town, joined by two almost equally destitute communities in neighboring Mississippi and Arkansas, submitted its application to have the area declared a federal "empowerment zone." If they succeed, tax breaks and grants worth $100 million will shower down on this neglected corner of the rural South. "We ought to qualify if anyone does, since there's no place that's worse off than we are here," says James Schneider, president of a local bank...
...company is also facing a fire storm of resistance to its projected historical theme park in rural Virginia, which opponents claim will trivialize American history and disfigure the countryside with commercial development. Meanwhile, combined theme-park attendance was down 6% last quarter in Anaheim (lingering effects from fires and earthquakes) and Orlando (fear of Florida's crime wave). At the same time, the studio's expanding movie production to 60 releases a year may have created the danger that many will compete against one another, the way Angie and The Ref did when they were brought out within a week...
Classically trained and sitcom-bred, Hanks knows that the starkest drama can always use a leavening of wit. For most of the film, he underplays Forrest's reactions at a level somewhere between a fretful deadpan and the rural slyness of the early Andy Griffith. So when he releases his feelings at the end (when questions of fatherhood and family traits are involved), the scene gushes like a geyser...