Word: gridlock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...games begin with Gallic zest -- and some gridlock...
...they are prepared. "The first flake won't even have time to hit the asphalt," says Killy. "It will land on a snowplow." But a few minor accidents on the two-lane mountain roads that lead up to the ski runs, bobsled course and hockey rink could create gridlock in transporting the 2,300 athletes, 6,000 journalists and 800,000 spectators who are to start arriving this week. "If coordination doesn't improve, the Games will be a sizzling failure," warned Andre Baudin, mayor of Tignes...
Create federal, state and local partnerships to build light-rail lines for urban areas lacking mass transit; support high-speed rail for passengers and freight. To help pay for it, boost taxes on parking and fuel. Such programs would reduce pollution, gridlock and dependence on oil imports...
Until now, attempts at reform have run into a gridlock of powerful constituencies: giant corporations, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and the highly organized senior-citizens lobby. But popular opinion may break the impasse. In a TIME/CNN poll of 1,000 adults surveyed by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 91% said that "our health-care system needs fundamental change." Most of those polled, 75%, said costs are much higher than they should be, and 83% said they would cut costs by limiting doctors' fees. Two-thirds said health care is a right, and 70% said they would be willing to pay higher taxes...
...GRIDLOCK CHIC...