Word: metro
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush campaign called network political directors and insisted that key Republican precincts in the panhandle of Florida hadn't yet been counted, while Gore staffers claimed that the reliably Democratic counties of Metro-Dade and Broward in South Florida hadn't yet come...
...just plain plumb pisses Cliff Johnson off. Cliff is the 73-year-old president of the Metro Wayne Democratic Club, and he's watched his membership go from 130 three-four years ago to about 80 today. "They don't know about hard times anymore," Cliff says. "They think they're big shots. Don't need anybody anymore. They're ripe to lose everything...
...companies point to what they call the "metro" business as a huge untapped market. After the national optical-fiber backbone is in place, the task will be to wire the cities and local networks, and eventually get that fast fiber to your neighborhood, and finally replace the copper wires and coaxial cable that go into your home. The trouble is, the metro market doesn't really exist today--and the technology that will make it possible, if not necessarily profitable, is only now being invented...
After four days of covering the GOP convention in Philadelphia, I was tired of eating on the run, wolfing down well-meaning but ultimately unsatisfying room-service sandwiches while the folks I covered gorged themselves in drunken, bacchanalian orgies of food. Every morning in the Philly Inquirer, Metro reporters detailed the high flyers' most recent repasts, presumably fighting off hunger pangs as the fat cats fed and preened themselves...
...seemed to me as the years progressed that we got much softer," says Hand, the metro editor. "You just felt that there were somehow pressures [in this direction] brought up in the front offices...