Word: detour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reading about them; he familiarizes himself with the latest in sex toys by researching them at a Frankfurt porno shop. But his education in cardiology is firsthand. "In the seventh year of the Reagan kakistocracy, the medical dyes shooting through my arterial freeways were forced to make a detour around a major obstruction," he writes with calculated self-mockery...
...back the pair decides to detour at Store 24 to buy another two-liter bottle of Coke and a Hostess doughnut 12-pack...
...familiar refrain for everyone who has ever tried to get away from Harvard on the Boston subway system. All four lines--Red, Blue, Green and Orange--run directly through the center of Boston. Even as simple a trip as traveling from one side Cambridge to another requires a lengthy detour the inevitable Park St. stop...
Gorbachev, whose background is in agriculture, has shown a special concern for the environment from the beginning of his reign. Early on, he toured the country and took care to detour from the carefully prepared showcase routes to inspect firsthand the polluted rivers and devastated forests. Funds for environmental protection, about $24 billion this year, are projected to reach $46.4 billion annually in the first half of the 1990s. At the same time, Gorbachev's regime has cracked down on polluters. Around Lake Baikal, about two dozen violations of ecological standards have been referred to prosecutors. In Nizhni Tagil...
...word -- consideration must be given to making the wealthy pay a larger share. Tax rates that range up to 70%, as they did before the Reagan cuts, may be unproductive, but there is nothing sacred about a spread that goes only up to 28% at the top (with a detour to 33% for couples with taxable incomes between...