Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...given 24 hours, there are 20,000 freight trains moving somewhere in this nation, growling over the plains, clanging through urban switches and laboring up mountain passes, carrying 37% of the stuff the country produces and consumes. Their long tails, sometimes stretching two miles behind, are mostly hidden in the swells and crevices of the land. Their mournful calls are filtered to whispers inside the hermetic minivans and campers off on the highways -- out of sight, out of sound and largely out of the national mind...
...million Chicago Urban Forestry program...
...urban pretensions in bigger towns like St. Joseph and Des ! Moines, the region was geared to nature's rhythms, a verdant land of quilted green and slow streams with such names as Skunk and Nodaway. The Flood of '93 stole some of its innocence and its trust. The most frequently cataloged submersibles besides homes and acres of waving grain were bandstands and ball fields. "Summers are what we are all about," insists the Des Moines Register's Larry Fruhling. "This summer was wrecked." Worse, it may have planted fear in the hearts of thousands of the yeomen...
...there is no question that its programming has already revolutionized the viewing habits and mores of a continent. STAR's early appeal was limited to affluent Asians who traveled frequently and understood English. But satellite dishes can now be found on the roofs of remote farmhouses as well as urban apartment high-rises...
...predators in your urban jungles...