Word: metropolitane
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...incoming asteroid is composed largely of iron, a nearby or even a surface explosion would present no problem. But if the asteroid is rocky, a blast, particularly an ill-planned one, might well shatter it into chunks, each a potential danger to a terrestrial region or metropolitan area...
...Susan McDougal, former wife of Jim McDougal, from the Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles
...consistent low quality and objectionable content of some music, my favorite radio station in New York City changed its format in 1995, and is now exclusively playing classic soul. Immediately before the changes, 98.7 Kiss-FM was consistently the top-rated radio station in the New York Metropolitan area. I am inclined to believe that their decision was artistically motivated and, if I may borrow the colloquial, not all about the Benjamins...
Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS). Of the Bay State's 13 metropolitan areas with a year-round population, New Bedford claimed the highest unemployment rate--11.3 percent...
...dead of the night, the hulks of four 372-ft. cooling towers and two high-domed nuclear reactor container buildings were scarcely discernible above the gentle waters of the Susquehanna River. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident...