Word: metropolitanism
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Some areas of the state reported as much as 28 inches of snow; school is cancelled in virtually all of metropolitan Boston, and snow emergency bans on off-street parking are in effect in Cambridge, Boston and other major cities...
...traditional pride as well as its current problems, resorted to gimmickry in an attempt to sell an overstock of houses owned by transferred employees. GM offered to give each buyer of a home another longtime American dream, a new car free of charge. The company sold 46 homes in metropolitan Detroit. But every buyer in these tight-money times turned down the car-and took a cash discount instead...
Federal and state agencies have spent more than $10 million in the last ten years to clean up the Charles River, but the basin from Boston to Watertown, although much cleaner than it was in the 1960's, will probably remain unfit for swimming indefinitely, a Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) official said yesterday...
...Barron agreed with Ferullo that making the river fit for swimming is currently an unfeasible goal. "As long as we are a dirty metropolitan area, we'll have a dirty river," she said. Fortunately, industrial pollution does not pose a direct problem for the Charles, she added...
...onetime cotton depot, Houston was the nation's fastest-growing major metropolitan area in the past decade. Population is up 70% since 1960, and since 1975 the city has led the nation in residential construction. Space for the sprawl is no problem because miles of prairie scrubland lie in three directions, and towns along the way are simply annexed. Nor does government interfere: Houston has no zoning laws. Dallas, however, is hemmed in by suburbs that resist annexation, and the city's urban planners have carefully guided expansion. Admits Dallas Developer Scovell: "Sure, we were jealous of Houston...