Word: mileposts
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That compelling victory and the joyous celebration that has echoed throughout the Mountain time zone was yet another milepost in an improbable finish that began in September's long shadows. Since then, the rockin' Rocks, who finished in the division cellar last season, have ripped off 21 wins in 22 games--a heart-pounding joyride that included a sudden-death victory just to get into postseason play, as well as playoff sweeps of the powerful Philadelphia Phillies and the lethargic Diamondbacks...
...year, faster than most experts had predicted. The surge in output lifted 1999's total gross domestic product 4%. That's the third year in a row the economy grew at that rate or better, a feat last accomplished in the late 1970s. When this expansion passes the February milepost, it will become the longest in American history--107 months...
...47th race to the White House has just passed its first formal milepost, last week's Iowa delegate-selection caucuses. Yet TIME'S campaign correspondents feel as if they have already endured as many bad meals, standard stump speeches, lost luggage and bumpy flights as most Americans do in a lifetime. In the process of reporting for this week's Nation and Press stories on the Iowa balloting and its implications, our "boys on the bus" paused to assess life on the campaign trail. Among their impressions...
...race relations. Blacks and whites worked together to head off serious racial strife in the 1960s. They avoided further confrontations in the 1970s by compromising on a token voluntary school busing program. For four years Atlanta has had a black mayor, Maynard Jackson. Last week the city passed another milepost, for itself and the South, when Jesse Hill Jr., 51, a black insurance executive, became president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, in effect becoming the titular head of the city's mostly white business establishment...
Thus, almost two years since they last went to war and in a grim, uneasy and almost anticlimactic milepost of history, Israel and Egypt formally accepted what U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger described as "the most sweeping document since Israel was made a state, a gigantic political agreement." If that was hyperbole, Kissinger could easily be forgiven. He had fathered the agreement and had cajoled, nudged and pressured both sides into accepting it. The Israelis were particularly resentful of that pressure and during the negotiations there was a coolness between them and the Americans that did not exist before...