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Texas State Technical College in Waco received a $425,907 check from the state's Skills Development Fund. The money will be used to provide training for Medical Plastics Laboratory in Gatesville and for Lide Industries in Mexia. Eliska Flores, a TSTC spokeswoman, said Lide makes industrial containers and is enjoying rapid growth. She said the money will go to create or upgrade more than 400 positions.
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Waco is located at 31°33'5" North, 97°9'21" West GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 247.4 km², out of which 218.1 km² is land and 29.3 km² is water.
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(...) Like seven years ago, after a shootout that left five Branch Davidians and four agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms dead, state and national media will encamp in Waco. Seventeen members of the media have requested credentials from the U.S. Marshals Service to cover next week's civil trial. Outside scrutiny of Waco will be intense, although down from 1993 standards. Then there were 35 satellite TV trucks alone parked a couple miles from Mount Carmel, in what came to be known as Satellite City.
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Jobless rates increased slightly in November in both the Waco and Killeen-Temple metropolitan areas while the state unemployment rate held steady at 5.3 percent. The jobless rate in Waco rose from 4.5 percent in October to 4. 6 percent in November. The unemployment rate for the metropolitan Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood area rose from 5.1 percent to 5.3 percent. Hurricane Rita drove up unemployment rates in southeast Texas after it made landfall in late September.
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By 1999, as a result of certain aspects of the documentaries discussed above, as well as allegations made by advocates for Davidians during litigation, public opinion held that the federal government had engaged in serious misconduct at Waco. A Time magazine poll conducted on August 26, 1999, for example, indicated that 61 percent of the public believed that federal law enforcement officials started the fire at the Branch Davidian complex. In September of that year, Attorney General Janet Reno appointed former United States Senator John C. Danforth as Special Counsel to investigate the matter. In particular, the Special Counsel was directed to investigate charges that government agents started or spread the fire at the Mt. Carmel complex, directed gunfire at the Branch Davidians, and unlawfully employed the armed forces of the United States.
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A series of incidents involving loss of life in small destructive, religious groups (including those at Jonestown and Waco) raised public concern about "cults" in general. However, by the late 1990's, the CCM had largely run out of steam in the United States. Some within the movement had committed very serious criminal acts, assaulting and brutally kidnapping members of NRMs and forcibly confining them. A series of legal cases put the largest of these groups out of business.
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