Word: grid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grid: Die Hard on a Canadian...
...United States, in spite of the universalization of a human rights culture, erected a grid which in inapplicable across other cultures? Not all forms of democracy are successfully exportable...
...want to create districts of approximately 500,000 people each. First, find the average per-square-mile population of the state. Next, draw a grid across its map with squares containing an average of 500,000 people in each one. Now comes the unavoidably subjective part. Squares must be added, subtracted and tinkered with until the populations in each district are correct. If the same algorithm is used for every district everywhere (i.e. start at western portion of the state, always expand districts east, then north, then south, etc.), the system becomes largely impartial over the entire nation...
Though classic TV escapism, these shows may be filling a societal need. "They put an 'entertainment grid' on the explosion of crime that's really % happening out there," suggests William S. Link, co-creator of Columbo and Murder, She Wrote as well as The Cosby Mysteries. "Today's crime rate is the highest in history. People want to see some sort of control, and you get that with fiction. On TV, the heavies are always caught...
Ironically, the phenomenon is a return to the city's past. Before the unbridled freeway and suburban development of the 1950s and '60s, Los Angeles traveled on trolleys -- over an extended grid of 12 lines covering 1,500 miles. Metrolink and a complementary subway system under downtown to be completed in 1997 will eventually connect 70 stations across 400 miles of track -- a case of going back to the future...