Word: solider
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Another problem -- for Republicans as well as Democrats -- is that the old "Solid South" has begun to lose some of its solidity. As more and more Northerners have moved to the Sunbelt in search of jobs, warmer winters, cleaner air and affordable suburbs, and as telecommunications have bound the nation closer together, the region has become more diverse, its citizens more cosmopolitan...
...lived among blacks, but not with them. He would have to grow, along with his region, in the stormy civil-rights days ahead. But he is at ease among blacks -- as Jimmy Carter was -- and they make up his most solid base of support in the state. He carries the black belt easily, with more than 90% of the African-American vote, in every election. Considered a moderate outside the state, he is opposed at home as "too liberal," too supportive of minorities...
Another recent addition is Mike Peters' "Mother Goose and Grimm." Peter is a solid cartoonist known not only for this strip, but also for his work as a political cartoonist, often seen on the Perspectives page of Newsweek. Although he is not the greatest talent ever to grace to medium, he produces consistently good work, despite being occassionally tasteless, in both his daily and his political cartoons...
Shelor first put the CSX Greenbrier project up for Round No. 4 of the DOE Clean Coal grants, counting on one advantage Otisca had lacked: built-in private funding. But despite solid science and engineering, the project was not one of the nine applicants selected last September. DOE had chosen to husband its funds for larger programs designed to produce new power-plant technologies for beyond the year...
Fatherland is being compared to Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park, set in the Soviet Union, another well-done, shadowed thriller about an honest cop operating within a malign bureaucracy. But Harris' narrative is more unsettling because it erodes our solid past and shows our present to be less than inevitable. His brooding, brown-and-black setting of a victorious Nazi regime is believable and troubling, the stuff of long nights of little sleep...