Word: detours
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...real world, with its double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation rates, beckons--at least for those who have decided to pass up the detour through graduate school...
...multiriver region of metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1,129 of the 5,000 or so bridges require repairs that would cost more than $1 billion. When loads over the Thompson Run Bridge in suburban Duquesne were reduced to five tons in 1978, the United States Steel Corp. had to detour its trucks for 26 miles, adding $1.2 million a year to its operating costs...
...reach their trains, passengers walk a zigzag detour one-third of a mile around the boarded-up building. At the end of this trek is a jerry-built replacement station. "This long walk is for the birds," groused New Yorker Aileen Gravelle, 71, dragging her suitcase along one muggy day. "And it used to be such a lovely station...
...World Peace March's five divisions made the detour to Cambridge in their walks from Montreal and bangor, Maine, to New York for the June 12 United Nations Special Session on Disarmament...
...spent half an hour looking for her car keys among the radios, bathing suits, and cosmetics that dominate her bedroom. After following's tricky detour, we emerged safely onto the highway and took the very first exit for a good Texas load of gasoline and enough French fries to feed the family next door for a week. Liz was a bit nervous about the last left turn before the airport, since she's too short to see over the dashboard of the Chevy. The parking lot was filled with cars, and there were no taxis. Everyone in Texas drives...