Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manageable district is critical, one in which a few dedicated volunteers and a larger group of occasional volunteers can have reasonable prospects for success. As compared to issue-related campaigns (e.g. a community campaign to stop an asphalt plant or to educate on air quality and asthma rates in urban children), the infrastructural advantage of a campaign for elective office is that it must be reactivated with frequency and--at least for the successful ones--that it can continue to grow with the success of the candidate...
...think the get-out-the-vote effort among labor unions, college students and large urban areas will be key," he said...
...geeky cowboy thing, or all that talk of him capturing the zeitgeist. Truth be told, we always did grin at that line about him being a loser and he always had been something of a likable maverick. His first album, Mellow Gold, introduced his sound: blending rural rockabilly and urban jangle into a casual aesthetic of sloppy cool. Mixing old school rap styling with twangy roots rock sounds, and fusing it all to an lo-fi punk philosophy, Beck wandered into the limelight as the ultimate slacker geek, announcing his own cheerful uselessness. His clueless sound had a certain novelty...
Cellucci solicited Harshbarger's position onschool choice, a hot-button issue for residents ofthe state's urban centers. "Scott, give it a try,"Cellucci said...
...almost enough to make you want to spend a weekend in Vegas, just to see how the new machine works. But what is the view across the lake going to look like, once Hilton has finished its own contribution to the urban mix, the Paris Las Vegas, with a half-size replica of the Eiffel Tower right across from the shores of Bellagio? Don't ask. Never mind. For sure, it won't have any Picassos...