Word: digging
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...Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop...
...fact is there's going to be no grand mobilization for which we can sacrifice. It's not our parents' war, with its visible monsters, quantifiable victories and necessary sacrifices. The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop. Last week Republican Senator Jon Kyl proposed a "Travel America" tax credit to encourage us to check in to the Bellagio or go lie on the beach...
...native Saudi and son of a Yemeni immigrant. Things got touchy last week when the U.S. asked for permission to launch strikes from a new Saudi air base and the Saudis, for now at least, balked. If a war places Saudi oil reserves at risk, the U.S. may dig in deeper, perhaps lighting fundamentalist fires...
Then think about what Boston is doing with the Big Dig. Virtually alone among major cities in the U.S., Boston has realized the futility of incremental improvements to its transportation infrastructure. Instead of adding a lane here and a new on-ramp there, Boston is completely scrapping and rebuilding its infrastructure, putting vast new roads underground and building new bridges and tunnels as well. The community paid for the multibillion dollar project using public funds from the state, local and federal levels and had to overcome a lot of not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) opposition to get it done...
...rest of the country is faced by an urgent imperative to think on the scale of Boston’s Big Dig: population growth. In 1940, around the time of the great construction boom of the Roosevelt era, the U.S. population was 132 million, according to the Census Bureau. In 1956, when the last big infrastructure project—the Interstate Highway System—was proposed, the population was 168 million. Today, there are 285 million Americans, twice as many as our infrastructure was built to handle...