Word: alongism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact, the initiative might never have gotten off the ground without a lot of help from Washington. Half the $200 million price tag of the first phase of the project will come from federal stimulus spending, and there's more to come. Along with the $3.3 billion in grant money set aside by the Department of Energy for smart-grid tech, another $615 million is set to be spent on projects for energy storage and monitoring. To Washington, building the smart grid is about more than energy - it's about creating jobs, an investment that will stimulate the economy today...
...clock scotch in the company of other well-mannered gentlemen, blanch at the notion of hooligans loitering among us. They threaten our quietude, with their newfangled dungarees and brimmed caps turned askew, and not so much as a single article of tweed! They scream along to their wild rock-and-roll music—all fans of those British, mop-headed Insects, or Beetles, or whatnot—and exhibit all manner of inappropriate merriment...
House: Corner of Mt. Auburn and DeWolfe streets along the Gold Coast...
...capstone of the band's album promotion has got to be the $75,000 "African Safari with Chester French and a friend of your choosing" (though FlyBy can only puzzle over why anyone would want a pesky friend tagging along and diluting Wallach and Drummery’s attention). Whereas zealous fans are capped at buying five of the other packages, there is no purchasing limit to this package. Meaning that you can technically spend the rest of your life bushwalking, rhino tracking, and gazing into Serengeti sunsets in the company of D.A. and Maxwell...
...question now is whether Rozsa, a Hungarian-Bolivian, felt that way about Bolivian President Evo Morales. Rozsa was killed early last Thursday morning in a hotel room in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. The government claims that he, along with four others, was part of a terrorist cell that was plotting to assassinate Bolivia's first indigenous President as well as other high government officials. "He went to Santa Cruz because he wanted to fight for autonomy of that region, which he said was his new and most important task," says Rozsa's close friend, Zoltan Brady...