Word: ruralization
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...system--shows how far America has yet to go in establishing something called homeland security. With no clear direction from the feds, state officials have been engaged in a perverse competition for antiterrorism dollars. The Bush Administration recently proposed a far more risk-based approach for 2005 funding, but rural-state Senators are balking now that they have had three years to get accustomed to their cash. In some ways, it is a familiar story: of state officials understandably guarding their piece of the pie, of rural localities getting disproportionate help from the government. But this money...
Like most rural states, Wyoming does not have a lot of money from property taxes to outfit its police, fire and emergency-services personnel. On top of that, the legislature has never been too generous. Until recently, it wasn't unusual for a fire station to hold a bake sale to raise money. Last summer, after a vintage World War II--era German bomber crashed into a building in Cheyenne, fire, ambulance and airport personnel could not talk to one another over their radios because they use different equipment. "We eventually ended up sending runners--like the Greeks," says Brian...
...jobless figure hovering around 9.8%, the government has little to boast about beyond its law-and-order record. "Fighting crime and insecurity is obviously necessary," warns ump parliamentary president Jean-Louis Debré, "but that's not enough when insecurity is now synonymous to many of our citizens with rural decay, company delocalization and unemployment." The government assures voters that it has no plans to tear down France's complex web of social protections. To prove the point, Chirac might be tempted to cut Raffarin loose. The Prime Minister, after all, is now viewed by some as the embodiment...
...presents himself with regard to gun laws—”a lightning-rod cultural issue,” says The Boston Globe, “that dogged Al Gore in 2000 and has the potential to swing certain voters in a general election, especially in rural areas and the South...
...chief political adviser Karl Rove, is to excite the conservative base on key issues and use select initiatives to reach out to certain targeted groups. He said tax cuts, farm subsidies and aggressive positions on social issues such as abortion and gay marriage are specifically directed at business interests, rural voters and white evangelicals—three key elements of the base. He said Bush administration policies on education, immigration reform and prescription drugs are designed to capture votes from suburban women, Hispanics and seniors, respectively...