Word: metropolitanism
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...fabled domain of High Tech, the 2 1/2 campaign has promised taxpayers cash in their pockets and assured local residents that new industry will flood in once taxes fall. But Wheaton's data--and that of most others who have studied the question--show that "tax differences between metropolitan areas have no measurable impact on industrial development." Instead, the MIT professor writes, the level of demand for goods depends on total spending, public and private. "Balanced budget tax reductions, such as Proposition 2 1/2, contract public spending and expand private consumption by roughly equal amounts." In other words, the government...
...member of the Harvard Lampoon, the Hasty Pudding Club and the Harvard Socialists during his undergraduate years, Reed covered the overthrow of the Czarist government for Metropolitan Magazine...
Valerie Talmege, an archaeologist for the historical society, told Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) officials who proposed the plan that they will have to present other alternatives...
Here are a few publications you might find interesting, but bear in mind that the list is beavily slanted towards the major metropolitan centers. There should be fan magazines of some sort in most areas of the country--if you're interested, seek them out and support them. If there aren't any in your neck of the woods and you think one should exist, find some like-minded friends and start...
...surprise attack, like landing craft, and usually powered by 30 or more oars. Alas, the Viking ships found in such Norwegian burial sites as Gok-stad and Oseberg, and now preserved in Oslo, are too fragile to cross the Atlantic. But as a sort of extension of the Metropolitan exhibition, a two-thirds scale model of one is being displayed at the South Street Seaport Museum in Lower Manhattan...