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...phrase "inside the Beltway" has become a part of America's political language, given a boost by Ronald Reagan and George Bush, who use it to explain why they succeed when the Washington policy elite says they will fail...
Unlike many undergraduates eager to break into the real world of politics, vice presidential press secretary Peter Teeley looks upon his stint at Harvard as an IOP fellow as a chance to return to the "real world"--the world outside the Washington. D.C. beltway...
Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand found an encouraging growth in the high-technology industries in his area. "The companies that used to cluster along Route 128, the inner Boston beltway," he says, "now stretch all the way to Route 495, the beltway 20 miles farther out." Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer, who reported the story from New York, admires entrepreneurs who broke away from older corporations to set up their own shops. "They have done themselves and the U.S. economy a real service," he says...
Americans feel a little sheepish about complaining, or they should. The cheap-jack bungalow on the wrong side of the beltway is still no Mongolian yurt, no tar-paper shack in one of Rio's mountainside favelas. It is not Soviet housing, with the five-year waiting list for a room of one's own, and couples sometimes stolidly enduring their marriages because there is no other apartment (no other bed, even) to escape to. It is not like the arrangements in dense Hong Kong, as busily transient as an ant colony, or Tokyo, where much middle-class...
...city ten miles away. The cicadas are going crazy in the heat. It is terribly still and terribly wide open. There's been a bag lady outside the window all night, and everyone's been making fun of her. God knows how she got out here on the beltway. It's too elaborate, probably. As you're leaving she wants to talk to you, and almost everyone talks loudly and ignores her. If you stop she tells you she wants to enlist you in her plan to resurrect Elvis...