Word: sprawling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Houston, the epitome of urban sprawl, is now building in the center of town as well as the outskirts. Three magnificent monuments to this new financial capital are now rising: the 75-story Texas Commerce Tower, the 55-story First International Plaza and the 50-story Three Allen Center. In Chicago the demand for downtown office space is so great that speculative builders are going ahead and putting up new structures without even bothering to line up tenants first...
...across the country, from the aging industrial centers of the Northeast to the suburban sprawl of the Southwest, pink unemployment notification slips are beginning to turn up in pay envelopes. When blue-collar employees get the news, employers normally say that those being laid off are made "redundant." But when announcements of wholesale dismissals of excutives are made, the gentler euphemism of "furloughing" is usually used...
...report also predicts that nuclear power will fade as an energy source, partly to be replaced by solar energy, and that there will be a trend away from suburban sprawl toward higher density housing...
Sometimes the idea springs from outlines, sometimes from headlines. One idea managed to come from a shudder. In the Hollywood Hills last year, Obst and Independent Producer Peter Guber (The Deep) gazed down at the urban sprawl. "What would happen if all this burned to the ground?" Guber wondered. Replied Obst: "I don't know. Let's do a book-movie in which fire is the villain." The Great Los Angeles Fire by Ned Stewart will be published by Simon & Schuster this fall; Columbia will make the film. Obst has the courage of his confections: his license plate...
...Paulo, the largest city on the continent, has all the attributes of a cosmopolitan, lively urban sprawl. Crowds swamp the downtown area, some of which is closed off to traffic, throughout the day, giving the city a liveliness foreign to anywhere in the United States. One of the largest communities of Japanese outside of Japan lives in Sao Paulo, as do Syrians, Lebanese and Italians. The sweet smell of alcohol-powered automobiles now chokes the air along with the exhaust fumes of more conventionally constructed vehicles. The city's "red-light district" rests, like a leech, along the side...