Word: airport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yuri Zarakhovich. "The process began with last year's sudden deployment in Kosovo, which was a far more serious development in Russian domestic politics than the West realized at the time." Back then the Kremlin found itself playing catch-up as the generals ordered their men to seize Pristina airport, and right now in Chechnya it's unclear if the civilian political leaders or the generals are in charge. "The military is certainly making clear that it plans to finish the job that the Kremlin didn't let it finish in 1996," says Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
...that weren't bad enough, Atlanta claims to have surpassed Chicago as the city with the busiest airport. Chicago's O'Hare airport still has more planes landing and taking off than any other airport--as a frequent visitor to O'Hare, often for longer than I'd intended to stay, I have grown to suspect that a lot more land than take off--but Hartsfield International handles more passengers...
...Chicago shows signs of fighting back. The city council has approved a zoning change for a building in the Loop that would be 67 ft. higher than the towers in Kuala Lumpur. For all I know, the airport authority is secretly figuring out how to jam enough additional passengers into O'Hare to pass up Atlanta, even if some software drummers trying to make connections get crushed like bugs in the process...
...longtime admirer of Chicago, I can only hope that cooler heads prevail. Atlanta, which is to boosterism what Las Vegas is to ATM machines, has been playing catch-up ball for years. It's just the sort of place that would boast about having the busiest airport, which seems a bit like boasting about having the world's largest traffic jam. Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood...
Then a photographer from Bon Appetit calls from Logan Airport, saying he'll be there soon to photograph the store for the January issue...