Word: redrew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catch the eye of the Cincinnati police, Flynt handed out free copies of Hustler on the street last year. No luck. Then he opened up a store selling his magazine, soft-core porn and sex toys. Nada. So he shipped in the hard stuff. Almost immediately the city redrew its zoning laws to make his store illegal. But before he got nailed for that violation, the county prosecutor sent in a 14-year-old kid to buy armloads of videos. Now Flynt is facing 15 counts of pandering obscenity and up to 24 years in jail. And he looks happy...
...that's why Texas could be critical. Political pros expect as many as six House races to remain undecided on the morning after the election, thanks to a federal panel's 11th-hour verdict that three districts in the state had been improperly drawn. The August court ruling redrew the lines in 13 districts, throwing out the spring primary results. In those districts, candidates now must win more than 50% of the vote on Nov. 5 against every qualified opponent of all parties, or be forced into a runoff...
...discretion of local school boards. Many of the suburban districts (parts of which extended into the city) had not allowed blacks to attend high school, forcing black families to move into central Kansas City in search of education. As the city's minority population grew, the KCMSD redrew school-attendance zones hundreds of times and bused some black children far from their neighborhoods in order to keep the races apart...
Circumstances varied. Nine-term Democratic Representative Stephen Solarz of New York, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lost to Nydia Velazquez, former secretary of the Department of Puerto Rican Community Affairs in the U.S. Solarz was partly the victim of a post-Census reapportionment that intentionally redrew his district to encourage Latino representation, which it did. But Solarz was surely hurt by his 743 overdrafts at the House bank. In Massachusetts, 127 bad checks helped do in Democrat Chester Atkins, who lost to a former county prosecutor...
...First Balkan War in 1912, Serbia and Greece banded together with several other small states in the area to drive the Turks back to the gates of Constantinople. The victors' rush to divide the spoils led to the Second Balkan War. The great powers of Europe stepped in and redrew...