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...artist Charles Keating -- not to mention the purblind way in which the Senate ethics committee investigated the offense? Will anyone speak up for Senators and Representatives who run against Congress back home but who are all too eager to rejoin the club once they are safely back inside the Beltway...
Every Monday morning, like clock-work, these people jam the freeways that connect their beltway suburbs to their downtown jobs; or, increasingly, they jam the beltway that leads from their single-family homes to their service jobs in the beltway commercial parks...
Commercial sectors followed. Restaurants, grocery stores, big malls, little malls, strip malls, rows and rows of small shops run as tax write-offs. It became less and less essential to go into the city. The suburban beltway became a self-contained Habitrail for the middle classes...
...Raab charged that the Bush Administration had taken a "lackadaisical" approach to prosecuting B.C.C.I. in part because the bank used Beltway insiders such as Clifford and Altman to lobby federal regulators. "If you were to look at the Rolodexes at B.C.C.I.," he said, they would show "the blue chips of Washington influence peddlers." As a result, he said, "senior U.S. policy-level officials were constantly under the impression that B.C.C.I. was probably not that bad because these good guys who they play golf with all the time were representing them...
...that Orlando could become the next Los Angeles. Traffic on Interstate 4, which runs through the heart of the city, slows to a long standstill at rush hour. A regional planning group has said the highway will need 22 lanes by the year 2000; it now has six. A beltway that will run from the airport around the city is being started just as the head of Disney Attractions, Dick Nunis, is beginning to talk about the need for a second such artery. And so far, no one can agree on where, or even whether, to build a public transportation...