Word: smarting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that's not very smart of them [not to issue an advisory]," said Elisabeth S. McKetta '01. "Usually they're very good about letting us know. I'm curious about why they didn...
...like this," says Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, a "smart growth" Democrat who was elected last year. Barnes has proposed a regional transportation authority that can block local plans for the new roads that encourage development. But dumb growth is not confined to Atlanta. Half a century after America loaded the car and fled to the suburbs, these boundless, slapdash places are making people want to flee once more. "All of a sudden, they're playing leapfrog with a bulldozer," says Al Gore, who wants to be the antisprawl candidate...
Limiting growth also means dealing with a profound conflict between the good of the community and the rights of the individual. For a lot of people, the good life still means a big house on a big yard. Who's to say they shouldn't get it? Yet smart growth envisions a nation packaged into town houses and apartments, a country that rides trains and buses and leaves the car at home. Everybody hates the drive time, the scuffed and dented banality, of overextended suburbs. But are we ready for the confinement and compromise the solutions require? Maybe not, according...
...grow. Between 1990 and 1996, metro Kansas City spread 70%, while its population, now 1.9 million, increased just 5%. In that period greater Portland, Ore., spread just 13%, the same growth rate as its population, now 1.7 million. For a long time Portland has been the laboratory city for smart growth. In 1979, as part of its compliance with a groundbreaking statewide land-use law, Portland imposed a "growth boundary," a ring enclosing the city proper and 23 surrounding towns...
many people have fallen for it because "Ourstudent was smart enough to tell them (s)he wasn'tinterested. (S)he then contacted the HarvardPolice," Holt wrote...