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In 1970, the city created a parking district to run both the meters and five public garages. The meters and the garages were the same rate, but a curbside time limit pushed commuters—as well as anyone who wanted to do dinner and a movie downtown—into garages.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
The messiness of democracy and the risk of deranged feedback processes are apparent to anyone who pays attention to U.S. politics. Autocracies suffer similar problems, although they are less immediately perceptible. Officials making up numbers or citizens declining to turn their anger into wide-scale protests can have serious consequences, making bad decisions more likely in the short run and regime failure more likely in the long run.
Spirals of Delusion
foreignaffairs.com
Incidentally, the first, much thinner edition of that atlas, produced in 1896, divided clouds into ten basic types, of which the plumpest and most cushiony-looking was number nine, cumulonimbus.* That seems to have been the source of the expression “to be on cloud nine.”
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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