Word: urban
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...Brookings Institution studies have shown that the local projects congressmen and governors like to fund are much more likely to be new and expanded roads and bridges in sparsely developed areas than maintenance and repairs for dilapidated roads and bridges in urban and suburban areas. Politicians love ribbon-cutting ceremonies, and federal and state rules are often skewed to promote new sprawl roads. And it's no coincidence that these roads mean big money for home builders, oil companies, asphalt producers, engineering firms and the rest of the highway-building industry; a powerful coalition of business groups lobbied...
...going to play I-told-you-so games, here's what I wrote last April in The Washington Post: "Traffic was awful and getting worse, idling sport-utility vehicles were contributing to global warming, mass-transit systems were crumbling, and nearly one-third of the nation's urban bridges were rated structurally deficient or obsolete. But the debate over the transportation bill avoided those pressing issues. It was all about who got what, and how much...
Henry C. Agbo ’09, who met Fienning while participating in PBHA’s Summer Urban Program last summer, said that Fienning was an outgoing presence within the organization...
...Penélope, Quentin and Uma--modern pairs of directors and actors who find they speak a common language and choose to do it again and again onscreen. The Bourne movies, unlike most meticulously planned and elaborately staged action pictures, are filmed guerrilla-style in the chaos of the urban world, a process that demands more than the usual team mentality. "It's like going to war," Greengrass says. "Who's going to be there? You want to know that someone's there every step...
...fact, it was over a cocktail discussion about urban crime that I met Marko Dimitrijevic, founder of Everest Capital, a Miami-based hedge fund firm with more than $2 billion invested through various strategies, although emerging markets are his specialty. Dimitrijevic was curious to hear about crime and its economic effects, which is not unusual for a man who invests in hot spots around the world...