All 12 Uses of
interstate
in
Fast Food Nation
- One historian has described the federal govern ment's 1950s highway-building binge as a case study in "interstate socialism" — a phrase that aptly describes how the West was really won.†
p. 8.0standard prefix: When a word begins with the prefix, "inter-", the prefix often means between. In this case, interstate means between different states. Interstate is often used as an abbreviation for interstate highway, a highway that runs between states. It has also come to mean freeway in a place like Hawaii where no major highway connects to another state.
- The fast food industry took root alongside that interstate highway system, as a new form of restaurant sprang up beside the new off-ramps.†
p. 8.1
- The first Carl's Jr. restaurant opened in 1956 — the same year that America got its first shop ping mall and that Congress passed the Interstate Highway Act.†
p. 22.0
- The Interstate Highway Act brought autobahns to the United States and became the largest public works project in the nation's history, building 46,000 miles of road with more than $130 billion of federal money.†
p. 22.1
- The cars and trucks on Interstate 25, heading north to Denver and south toward Pueblo, are tiny, slow-moving specks of white.†
p. 59.4
- By the late 1990s, Colorado's spending on education ranked forty-ninth in the nation; fire departments throughout the state were understaffed; and parts of Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs were clogged with three times the number of cars that the highway was designed to hold.†
p. 64.9
- On the other side of the interstate, a new multiplex theater with twenty-four screens beckons students to cut class.†
p. 79.3
- In recent years: Armed robbers struck nineteen McDonald's and Burger King restaurants along Interstate 85 in Virginia and North Carolina.†
p. 86.8
- The new interstate highway system made it possible to rely upon trucks, instead of railroads, to ship meat.†
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- When it confirmed the accuracy of the book, Roosevelt called for legislation requiring mandatory federal inspection of all meat sold through interstate commerce, accurate labeling and dating of canned meat products, and a fee-based regulatory system that made meatpackers pay the cost of cleaning up their own industry.†
p. 205.1
- It can only consult with a company that has shipped bad meat and suggest that it withdraw the meat from interstate commerce.†
p. 211.1
- And billboards along the interstate announced that Peter Lowe's Success 1999 was coming to Las Vegas, with special appearances by Elizabeth Dole and General Colin Powell.†
p. 239.8
Definition:
freeway, or highway that runs between states
or:
relating to the mutual relations between states -- especially of the United States
or:
relating to the mutual relations between states -- especially of the United States
Note that interstate is often contrasted with intrastate. An intrastate highway is used to move from one location in a state to another, rather than to move between states. Similarly, interstate commerce is business between states; whereas intrastate commerce affects a state without affecting other states. Under the U.S. Constitution, the interstate/intrastate distinction is important when determining when the federal government has authority to override state government.