Word: bottleneck
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...Reject prestige projects. Instead of constructing huge sports stadiums, sprawling airports and sparkling conference halls, poor countries could invest in so-called bottleneck-breaking programs: transportation and communication infrastructures that spur efficient industrial and agricultural output...
...first the big bottleneck in the process had been immigration. But last week the 80 immigration officers and clerks flown to Guam were working 12-to 16-hour shifts, processing 3,000 Vietnamese a day. By week's end 17,000 refugees had been cleared and were flown to the U.S. mainland...
...Dixie soul and gospel like a raunchy roadhouse vamp, while her nine-year-old daughter watches from the wings. Bonnie Raitt, 25, a honey brunette equally at ease with Ionesco's plays or Muddy Waters' music, plays tough-mama blues, slapping her guitar strings with an old bottleneck or steel slide to produce a gutsy low-down sound. Isolating herself from rock's opulence, she cultivates the friendship of elderly black bluesmen and devotes a large proportion of her profits to activist politics. She explains, "I deliberately don't spend money on cars or land...
...called "slide" or "bottleneck," a style of guitar playing in which something like a piece of broken glass is used to fret the strings to produce a strong, lowdown sound. A few decades ago it was the sound of a whole genus of American music that might be called backroads blues. Today its best exponent is Ry Cooder, a guitarist and singer of wry wit and concentrated energy who has extended the troubadour tradition of Woody Guthrie and fashioned a distinctive personality for himself from the shards of the American musical past...
Cooder is a revisionist, an adapter, not an original composer. He snuggles into history like a time traveler, singing in a husky, good-natured voice that carefully preserves a ragged edge. But it is his w12ardry with a bottleneck that gives him a tangible link with the old Delta bluesmen. Cooder applies the neck of a vinegar bottle to his Martin D45 guitar and makes the music ring, giving the notes a natural resonance in which you can almost hear the past...