Word: sprawl
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...getting PAC money from agribusiness, for example, the Speaker may have less trouble commanding party loyalty in any vote to cut, say, farm subsidies. To achieve a similar end, some of the most powerful committees have had their authority reduced. Still, Gingrich didn't pare back all of the sprawl. Ways and Means, for instance, is a magnet for campaign contributions because it controls the tax code. Chairman Bill Archer was willing to make do with 29 members, but demand for seats was so high that Gingrich made...
...country, which crowds 62 million people into a narrow strip of arable land the size of the Netherlands, provides a sobering reality check for the idealistic premises of the Cairo accord. Egypt imports 70% of its food, yet each year it loses thousands of acres of farmland to urban sprawl and overuse. The nation will somehow have to find food, water and jobs for an additional 37 million people over the next 30 years...
...truce could prove only temporary. A lot of Vermonters think of the battle in symbolic terms, referring to the store chain as "Sprawl-Mart," a term conveniently supplied last year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wal-Mart opponents vow to fight the retailer's efforts to build stores in the more suburban locations of St. Albans and Williston, where Wal- Mart has unsuccessfully sought permits for the past four years. As the company surely knows by now, Vermonters give ground grudgingly when they give...
...issue is not urban sprawl. This is bigger stuff: a battle of cultures, a struggle between authentic and inauthentic America. Or as historian David McCullough, co-founder of the anti-Disney Protect Historic America committee, insists, a case of "synthetic history . . . destroying real history...
Those who fear that a children's entertainment will destroy real history have little faith in history. Disney's America is an amusement for kids who bring their parents along for the ride. The issue of urban sprawl is serious. The suggestion of cultural desecration is not. As the kids would say, "Lighten up, guys...