Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longtime admirer of Chicago, I can only hope that cooler heads prevail. Atlanta, which is to boosterism what Las Vegas is to ATM machines, has been playing catch-up ball for years. It's just the sort of place that would boast about having the busiest airport, which seems a bit like boasting about having the world's largest traffic jam. Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood...
Which is why, I told them, that Chicago should not trouble itself to get into a height fight or a passenger race with the likes of Kuala Lumpur or Atlanta. It is, after all, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City. Somebody reminded me that if Liebling were writing now, he'd have to call Chicago the Third City; Los Angeles has more people. Does that mean that some Chicago booster is concocting a scheme to annex Moline and move its population to the Loop? If so, please, stop...
...matter how many adjustments corporations make, of course, some people will never embrace the off-hours routine. For six years, John Wheeler, 39, was a night news writer and producer for CNN in Atlanta. "I was out of synch with the rest of the world," he recalls. He quit last fall, and insists, "You couldn't pay me enough to go back." Instead, he chose to become a 9-to-5 public relations specialist for United Parcel Service--a company that happens to be one of the major employers of nightworkers...
...Torre, manager of the defending champion New York Yankees, has had to overcome bad teams, impossible owners and, earlier this year, a life-threatening illness to stay atop the baseball heap. Last week he had to deal with TIME's JOEL STEIN before taking on the Atlanta Braves...
...Even after managing in Atlanta, does that tomahawk chant make your skin crawl...