Word: meridian
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...land," he says. "You can't work against it." The big sky does not intimidate him; it entices him. Mathers is undaunted by solitude or the prospect of tiny clusters of civilization tied by the endless reaches of shortgrass in the 10 states between the Rockies and the 98th meridian. The Great Plains form one-fifth of the land mass of the lower 48 states -- and an even greater portion of the nation's legend and romance. Sitting Bull warred and wept on the plains. General George Custer wandered there with the Seventh Cavalry, his pack of greyhounds...
Even in those days, when Atlanta's stature was based on the access it afforded to places like Valdosta and Meridian and Demopolis, it had what you might call international aspirations. When I was in the company of civic boosters, they would begin by telling me about how many FORTUNE 500 companies were represented in the city and how much higher in altitude and more westerly in longitude it was than anyone might have imagined -- anyone, they must have meant, who had never met an Atlanta booster. Then, if there was a lull in the conversation, they would sometimes...
...have fled to suburban counties, where they prefer traffic jams to participation in an underground transportation system that could bring black people out their way. When all is said and done, Atlanta's economy still has a lot to do with Atlanta's access to places like Valdosta and Meridian and Demopolis -- I have heard the city described as "a bunch of buildings and stuff next to the Atlanta airport" -- but I suspect no one has called it Gate City to the South for years...
...Conroy wrote in a letter to the Constitution last fall. "It's a fabulous city for business." The business statistics tossed off now are not about branch offices but about facilities of foreign companies. The airport is spoken of not as simply a place to catch a plane to Meridian but as a place to catch a plane to London. In the dreams of the boosters, the final certification of international-city status will come when Atlanta, which has the American designation in the competition for host city of the 1996 Olympic Games, emerges as the International Olympic Committee...
...next year if not next month. But in the West the water shortage is not just a freak of nature. Los Angeles receives 9 in. of rainfall a year and Phoenix only 8, vs. 40 in. of precipitation for Chicago. Almost all the U.S. flatlands west of the 100th meridian, which runs from Texas to North Dakota, consistently receive too little precipitation to sustain agriculture without irrigation. Says Dennis Mahr, a Southern California water manager: "We're in a constant state of drought, and we've learned to live with...