Word: apartness
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...commuting on PeopleExpress between Pittsburgh and New York City at the time and, week by week, I witnessed a company that was coming apart even as it continued to expand. PeopleExpess began to make U.S. Air look like a Swiss watch. The PeopleExpress staff was increasingly stressed and losing control of their system. Newark's dilapidated North Terminal, People's cut-rate home terminal, began to resemble a refugee center as flights were canceled without warning, rerouted or, it seemed, simply lost in the confusion. The smiles that greeted the airline's early days were being replaced by swarms...
...have come to think of teenagers as a breed apart - ask any parent of one. But as a driver of culture, as a consumer niche, as a state of contrariness, the subspecies known as teenager wasn't even identified until World War II, the point at which British music writer Jon Savage's fascinating new book, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945, ends. His 576-page trawl through the social commentary, memoirs and reportage of Europe and the U.S. in those decades shows how all the indicators of modern youth culture - the generational antagonism, the moral panics...
...wall itself, or to the huge increase in the number of U.S. soldiers living and patrolling in Ghazaliya. For American troops, the clearest indication that the wall is frustrating the insurgents was the fact that they tried to destroy it, in a multiple bombing on April 29 that blew apart several of the large concrete slabs. U.S. forces repaired the damage the following...
...Clintons learned during the last major effort to change the medical financing system, major interest group and corporate opposition can pick a plan apart, and the specters of increased taxes (a feature of the state reform plans), increased government bureaucracy, and cuts in payments to health care providers means that blocking serious change isn't very difficult...
...fought over by jihadists, Baathists and proxies of Iran, while Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds slug it out on the under-card of what could quickly become a regional war. Right now, the U.S. presence may be all that is holding Iraq together, but letting it fall apart would deeply damage a far wider range of Washington's interests...