Word: links
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faster than a speeding bullet, but for Lone Star staters in a hurry the so-called bullet train authorized last week by the Texas high-speed rail authority may be the next best thing: a 200-m.p.h. high-tech wonder that . should eventually link Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin in a 620-mile commuter triangle -- America's first ultrafast rail line...
...Guard. Founded by the colonists in 1607, blooded in the Revolution as the Minutemen, the Guard has served in every major U.S. conflict, and acts as a first line of defense when natural disasters strike. The 574,000 Guard members enrolled in 4,000 units are the military's link to civilian society: part-time soldiers who are supposed to devote a minimum of 12 weekends and one two-week period each year to prepare themselves for battle...
...Well," says a senior Administration official, "we promised to try. We didn't exactly link dealing with Saddam to a serious attempt to waddle around in this mess afterward, but that was clearly the President's message to the Arabs, and we are determined to keep our word. None of the toing and froing may go anywhere, which is obviously where you'd have to put your money if you cared to bet, but history shows that whenever a Middle East peace process is at least perceived to be ongoing, the chances for war recede...
...sort of strictly enforced urban planning has come to seem somehow anti- American over the past half-century, and especially during the laissez- faire decade just ended. To create neotraditional towns requires that residents surrender some bits of individualism (no picture windows, no chain- link fences, no raised ranch houses) for the sake of overall harmony -- yet many neighborhood homeowners' associations already have rigid rules regarding lawns and paint colors. Some critics disparage the nostalgia that fuels the traditional-town movement -- as if all suburbs weren't in some measure nostalgic exercises, attempts to indulge middle-class Americans' pastoral urges...
Watching a game in Detroit is a graduate course in capturing the magic of the old-time ball parks. Unlike the ivy-clad perfection of Wrigley Field or the self-congratulatory ugliness of Fenway Park, 79-year-old Tiger Stadium represents the last remaining link with baseball before it became too self- conscious. No park provides more of the sensual joys of the game itself. On a clear night, fans can hear the crack of the bat, the infield chatter and even the ball hitting the catcher's mitt in the Tiger bullpen down the third- base line. The cantilevered...