Word: grid
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...gunfire echoes from the poor, urban neighborhoods to the suburbs of the heartland. Omaha, with a population of 340,000, is just an average Midwestern city, which is why the story of its armed youth shows how treacherous the problem has become. The Omaha neighborhood of Benson, a tidy grid of suburban-style homes on the northwest side, has been taken by surprise. Three dozen shaken parents and troubled teenagers gathered on a rainy Tuesday night in May at the Benson Community Center, bracing for summer's onslaught and groping for solid ground in a world where cruising can include...
...backbone of AT&T's communacopia strategy is the company's 2 billion- circuit-mile telephone grid. First built in 1879, the network has been continually upgraded. In the past 10 years, AT&T has replaced most of its old- fashioned copper-cable network with advanced fiber-optic wires, which give the grid a massive carrying capacity, or bandwidth. AT&T's long-distance system handles 150 million phone calls and data transmissions a day. It has the capacity to carry at least twice as much traffic, at no greater cost...
...legendary cavern will be equipped with bleachers, lights, an overhead grid and a sound system, according to Adams House non-resident tutor Richard E. Nash '92. Nash has already produced three plays in the space without the specialized equipment...
...linked exchange-rate system caused by a 10% devaluation of the Irish punt and a fierce attack by speculators on the Danish krone, one of Europe's strongest currencies. The rate cut also buoyed the sinking British pound, which last year was forced completely out of the currency grid by Germany's high interest rates. The action should lead to similar cuts in other European countries, ravaged by high unemployment and tottering near recession...
...most obvious explanation for governmental "grid lock," to use a recently coined term, is a sort of voter schizophrenia--the propensity to vote for local and national candidates with completely different views of the nation. This phenomenon is evident from the fact that Democratic Congresses have sat alongside Republican presidents for the last 12 years. Moreover, states that voted overwhelmingly for a Democratic President, like Massachusetts and Connecticut, elected and re-elected Republican congresspeople...