Word: swathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early last Monday morning citizens in central Florida awoke to a scene of destruction. Overnight, a series of nine tornadoes touched down leaving 38 dead, interrupting phone and power utilities and wreaking havoc on a 50-mile swath of farmland and rural townships...
When MATTHEW MARTINEZ (D., Calif.), an affable ex-Marine who represents a swath of suburban Los Angeles, attended the White House luncheon for Mexican President ERNESTO ZEDILLO last November, he had something that President Clinton wanted: a potential vote for the fast-track trade bill. And Clinton had something Martinez wanted: power to approve the $1.4 billion Long Beach freeway extension, blocked by environmentalists and historic preservationists for two decades. When a Clinton lobbyist approached him, Martinez was ready: "Why should I vote for fast track when it's like pulling teeth to get anything from [the President]?" Martinez recalls...
When Matthew Martinez (D., Calif.), an affable ex-Marine who represents a swath of suburban Los Angeles, attended the White House luncheon for Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo last November, he had something that President Clinton wanted: a potential vote for the fast-track trade bill. And Clinton had something Martinez wanted: power to approve the $1.4 billion Long Beach freeway extension, blocked by environmentalists and historic preservationists for two decades. When a Clinton lobbyist approached him, Martinez was ready: "Why should I vote for fast track when it's like pulling teeth to get anything from (the President)?" Martinez recalls...
...reverted areas represent a broad swath of the national territory, and their development could transform Panama. But there are more skeptics than optimists. Panama's dream is to become another Singapore--a prosperous banking, transportation and tourism hub exploiting to the fullest its ownership of one of the world's most important waterways. The alternate, nightmare vision, unfortunately, is of a nation handed a great resource that it then wastes through corruption and mismanagement...
Gifford said a "wide swath of city residents" opposing the new building have started a petition drive...