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...laid-off workers into gleaming new aerospace, computer-software and financial-services facilities. "The Rockies became leaner and meaner ahead of the rest of the country," says Russell Behrmann, Utah's economic- development director of administration. When the national recession hit, the states were "recession resistant -- they had some built-in antibodies...
...steam, the Rockies boom has its pitfalls and built-in limitations. For one thing, it cannot go on forever in the continued absence of a general economic recovery. "The longer the national doldrums persist, the more susceptible we'll be," says Behrmann. "We're not an island. We may be a refuge. We can weather the storm. But we're not immune." For another, the region's scarcity of water poses as much of a challenge as it always has. The northern tier of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, with plentiful rivers and low population density, expects no problem satisfying...
...final factor that is bound to curtail indefinite expansion is the natural law that insists the built-in cost of growth is change. That, of course, is what the natives resent most of all. As a longtime advocate of managed growth, Lamm, for one, is worried that Westerners with their traditional sense of independence will continue to wave off essential land-use planning and allow Denver, say, to become "the Los Angeles of tomorrow." Others point out that some of that nefarious future has arrived. Denver this summer has been gripped by anxiety over a sudden surge of gang violence...
...feel secure is that you have people working on complimentary projects so they're checking on each other," says Raymond L. Erikson. American Cancer Society professor of cellular and developmental biology. "If each experiment builds on others, there's a built-in check mechanism...
...took the Voting Rights Act to suggest the possibility of a "good" gerrymander. The act's 1982 revision and related court rulings required states with histories of racial discrimination to draw up districts where minority candidates would have a viable chance of being elected. Resulting jurisdictions with built-in black majorities came to be called "majority- minority" districts. More than a dozen new majority-minority seats were born in the South. Because of the redistricting based on the 1990 census, the number of black and Hispanic representatives in Congress rose from 36 to a politically potent 56 last year...