Word: flows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private toilets.) Even worse, Paris was clearly being overwhelmed by "le boom." Though the city (pop. 2.5 million) continually loses people to the suburbs (pop. about 7,000,000), the vast majority of jobs are in town. That means commuters and commuters mean cars. Every weekday, 900,000 automobiles flow through Paris, and there are only 150,000 parking spaces on the streets of the central city...
Economic Stability. More than a million homes have been rebuilt, and all but a hundred or so of the 561 more important bridges in the riverine delta region have been repaired. Jute exports, the prime source of foreign exchange, have also begun to flow from the ports...
...roaring motorcar, which runs like a machine gun, is more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace." Ever since then, the automobile has been present on the margins of Western art, though not, as the horse once was, at its center. There has never been a flow of car images to match the innumerable equestrian ones of the past, because the car is-as Marinetti implied-a work of art already, a mass-produced corporate sculpture, permeated with style. Logically, then, why not have an artist make a car and call it his work of art? In 1966 a California...
...experiment, covering half a square mile near the White House, was devised by the Sperry Rand Corp. under a $4.1 million contract with the Federal Highway Administration. Electronic sensors, embedded in the streets, monitor the flow of vehicles above them. Telephone wires carry the information to a central computer that is programmed to analyze these data immediately, and to send back the appropriate commands to street lights...
Just to make sure all systems are go, the computer also shows the traffic flow on a war-room-type display board at the control center. There, traffic engineers can take personal command of the lights if the computer shows signs of faltering. So far, it hasn't. Already, 117 intersections have been wired into the network, and by November it will be fully operational...