Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effectiveness of such voltswagens dramatically. Developers in Playa Vista hope to wire the subdivision's two-mile main artery and service the neighborhood with all-electric trucks and vans. Edison's Reeves dreams of extending the network until it crisscrosses the state. Electrifying one or two lanes of a freeway, he says, might be enough to keep fleets of buses and cars charged up. People wedded to gas-gulping cars could still drive on electrified highways, but they might get dirty looks from the new breed of battery-powered motorists...
...album's songs are all variations on the theme of East-West collision, which, as rendered by Parks, sounds like a rush-hour pileup on the Golden State Freeway. Not that the music is jarring; far from it. Melodies waft about like tropical breezes, blowing a little irony in all directions. Tokyo Rose begins with a typically peppy but odd Parks arrangement of America -- jukebox Charles Ives -- and ends with a tune about baseball (One Home Run) sung in English and Japanese. In between is a chronicle of misunderstanding. Manzanar is about the internment camps of World War II; White...
Most likely to fail in the middle of a billion-dollar deal. It was the technological breakthrough that made where people make their calls ("I'm calling from the freeway! The chairlift! The beach!") as important as what they had to say. The concept behind the cellular telephone is to divide a geographical region into overlapping "cells," each assigned its own radio frequency. As callers travel from one telephone cell to another, a complex computer system automatically switches their call from one frequency to the next. And with a little luck, the party they're talking to gets switched...