Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bedroom house with a 30-year mortgage--and paid it off in six years. He also once owned a pair of shiny Lincoln Continentals. But he gave up those things 23 years ago when he and his wife were divorced. Today he lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Highland Park, a gritty Detroit suburb. He drives a red 1985 Ford Escort that runs just fine, thank you--though neighborhood thieves have forced him to do without hubcaps...
...wandered off of Elm onto Willow, and found myself in familiar stomping grounds--I used to live here. Walking down Willow brought me to a magical world of residential living, far from the ridiculous parodies I had seen in Harvard Square earlier that morning. At the intersection with Highland Avenue and Willow, in a little corner grocery so quintessentially itself that the owner could well have disposed of the formality of a name, I bought a Coke and a donut. As usual, the baked goods display held the promise of what was to come: good times. I was down...
THIS PAGER COULD BE A LIFE SAVER Think pagers are just toys for teens or tools for people on the go? Starting in March, residents of Highland Park, Texas (near Dallas), can carry small pagers meant solely for emergency police assistance. For $20 a month, the pagers, made by Personal Security & Safety Systems (PSSI) in Dallas, will enable owners to push two buttons discreetly that will alert police to their location within 10 ft. Police can then respond within three minutes, as they would to any 911 call. The system works using a network of antennas around the city that...
...alone threw America's Industrial Revolution into overdrive. Instead of having workers put together the entire car, Ford's cronies, who were great tool- and diemakers from Scotland, organized teams that added parts to each Model T as it moved down a line. By the time Ford's sprawling Highland Park plant was humming along in 1914, the world's first automatic conveyor belt could churn out a car every 93 minutes...
...politicians and the government. Unfair tax breaks and subsidies for the rich are an essential by-product of the U.S. economic system. Its handmaidens in the political system put this into practice whenever they can get away with it--and that is most of the time. JACK A. SMITH Highland...