Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rockies, perhaps too rosily, are increasingly being regarded as the new American heartland. They hold out a promise not just of scenery and jobs but also, most important, of old, back-country values and certainties -- like home, hearth and family -- that have seemingly gone astray in many urban centers. California never offered those. California offered liberation and excitement. "We just decided that Pocatello, with its low crime and good schools, was the place we wanted to raise a child," says Peter Angstadt, 38, a transplant from Fremont, California. He moved in 1987, and in 1989 became mayor of the Idaho...
...maneuvered by a young professional who more likely than not favors gun control. "I love it here in Denver," says Tom Bauer, 33, a Harvard-educated architect who left Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Los Angeles to try his hand at environment-sensitive design in Colorado. "Sure, I worry about urban problems like crime catching up to us here, but I guess I'm hopeful they can be resolved by people voting the right way for things like gun control...
...Rockies' new ethos manages to combine the yearning for a simpler, rooted, front-porch way of life with the urban-bred, high-tech worldliness of computers and modems. When the San Francisco earthquake struck almost four years ago, computer writer T.C. Doyle, 30, and his wife Naomi, 29, picked up and moved to scenic -- and relatively sophisticated and pricey -- Park City, Utah. "We wanted a smaller town that was on the upswing," says Doyle. From there he now sends stories almost daily to his employer, Computer Reseller News, in Manhasset, New York. Bruce Tipple, 48, moved to the same mining...
...unexpectedly passed Amendment 2, a ballot initiative aimed at outlawing ordinances protecting homosexuals against discrimination. The measure -- which is in abeyance while awaiting a Colorado Supreme Court ruling -- was strongly supported by voters in the rural counties and the Front Range suburbs, and just as conspicuously opposed by the urban voters of Denver, Boulder and Aspen, where so many of the newcomers dwell...
...Islamic radicalism. Finally last week federal prosecutors declared that the three cases were part of a single terrorist conspiracy led by Abdel Rahman. A grand jury in New York City indicted Abdel Rahman, Nosair and 13 others on sweeping charges that they had plotted "to levy a war of urban terrorism against the United States...