Word: antigrowth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...islands, which protect the mainland from the force of incoming storms, were becoming overbuilt. But when officials tried to put the brakes on development, they came up against some hard political realities. The fat revenue stream from condo towers, resorts and convention hotels made it very difficult to elect antigrowth politicians. Hurricanes were acknowledged to be a danger. But, says Charles Lee, senior vice president of the Florida Audubon Society, "instead of restrictions, you got engineering standards. And from that point on, there really wasn't any limit on growth...
...next Sunday morning, Bill Gates went into Stained-Glass Windows, and the Scripture reading was a screechy passage from Jeremiah, and the sermon was very antimoney, antigrowth, antientrepreneurship, and it scrolled on for hours; and when the Confession window opened, Bill clicked twice on the Pride icon and then Continue and saw This program has performed an immoral function and will be shut down, and in that moment he went blind...
...close are pinning their hopes on the Federal Reserve Board to cool the economy by raising interest rates more than bond traders already have. But the Fed at a meeting last week decided for the moment to do nothing. One reason: Chairman Alan Greenspan is not at all the antigrowth fanatic he has often been called. He is known to believe the key signals of inflationary danger are bottlenecks in the economy: shortages of labor or goods that drive up wages and prices. Apparently he sees no conclusive signs yet that such bottlenecks are developing...
...seen spattered across a nearby hillside; at the town's outer limits, the wooden skeletons of half-built houses are strewed along the landscape. In five years, Parker's population has doubled, to 10,000. Last February local voters reacted to the boom by passing one of the toughest antigrowth initiatives in the U.S., a measure requiring a unanimous vote of the town council before any new areas can be added to the town. "The people are alarmed," says Lopez. "They were tired of seeing earthmovers on Main Street. We're besieged by development...
...hand it to the resolutely rustic citizens of Vermont: they know how to bend outsiders to their will. Outraged by the thought of Wal-Mart megastores sprouting among their sugar maples and dainty shops (Ye Olde Wal- Marte?), antigrowth protesters have repeatedly fought off America's No. 1 retailer and made their state the only one in the country to remain Wal-Mart free...