Word: pedestrianization
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...Physics Prize went to Thomas Kyle, discoverer of the heaviest element in the universe, Administratium. The Pedestrian Technology Prize was awarded to Paul Defanti for the invention of the Buckybonnet, "a geodesic fashion structure" worn to "protect heads and preserve composure...
...system of civil justice is, at times, a self-inflicted competitive disadvantage," Quayle declared at the outset. What followed was a somewhat pedestrian recital of recommendations for reforming the legal system from the President's Council on Competitiveness, which the Vice President chairs. Many of these ideas represent pro-business leftovers from the Reagan Administration. But Quayle's speech is likely to be remembered for the string of rhetorical questions he asked in conclusion: "Does America really need 70% of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system...
...Read my lips." In fact, his wording was rather pedestrian. But the substance of Boris Yeltsin's campaign promise was quite as bold, and may be every bit as difficult to fulfill, as George Bush's 1988 vow not to raise taxes. Under his "program of immediate economic stabilization" for the Russian Federation, said Yeltsin, "there will be the beginning of an improvement in living standards toward the end of 1992." In other words, he would not just stop but reverse the calamitous economic plunge that is the legacy of more than 70 years of communist mismanagement. And he would...
...pedestrian, not a bicyclist," she said. "I think this is great. There are too many bicycles on the sidewalks. This will get them off onto the streets...
...always felt that Quincy House, where I lived for three years, was ugly," Russell says, adding that DeWolfe should make the scene better from a pedestrian point of view...