Word: gridlock
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heated negotiations between Harvard and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254 seemed for weeks to be making little progress—on Feb. 26, a group of union and student activists were arrested by Cambridge police for civil disobedience as they protested the apparent gridlock by stopping traffic on Mass...
...dolly handles and painted street lines; behind and off to the right, an undulating white canvas runs into a street covering a construction site, thus breaking up that structured rigidity. In the middle background, between the tarpaulin and the worker, cars stream by, having just come out of gridlock. Most unsettling, in the very close left foreground, half a woman’s out-of-focus head protrudes into the image, looking from left to right across the frame. The woman disrupts with her half-head intruding on an otherwise neat and easily digestible composition...
...Sort of makes you wonder what the GAO is so exercised about - unless histrionic gridlock was Ken Lay's secret plan all along...
...Dean Kamen's Segway. New Yorkers are avid pedestrians and steel-nerved riders - a motorized scooter, methinks, offers them too little of either. But it is a pitch for the cities of the future Kamen dreams about - less cars, fresher air, more foot traffic and less sitting in midtown gridlock...
...training in the mayor's office," said Brown, who ran police departments in New York, Atlanta and Houston and served as Bill Clinton's drug czar before being elected mayor in 1997. But voters were more interested in knowing why he hadn't done more about gridlock and smog. Brown's credentials didn't keep him from a runoff with city councilman Orlando Sanchez, who was in rompers when Brown was walking a beat...