Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Back Bay, the Fenway and the South End to the original streetcar suburbs--Charlestown, Brighton, Ashmont Hill and Jamaica Plain. More and more rising young professionals, children of affluence, born in VA-and FHA-financed suburbs, are opting for the brick townhouses instead of housing tracts and the Southeast Expressway traffic, and re-shaping the city with their Cuisinart, Volvo and exposed brick style...
...will be in effect from midnight Sunday, Sept. 30, to midnight the next day, and the restricted area lies within Mass Ave., Storrow Drive and the Southeast Expressway, White said...
...hard to remember that majority will or consensus exists, and, indeed, these seem to crystallize less and less often nowadays. When truckers dislike a nationally mandated speed limit, they turn into an instant faction and willfully protest the law with massive slowdowns. Los Angeles motorists, irritated by an experimental expressway lane for car poolers, defeat it not with persuasion and argument but by circumventions and defiant traffic blockages. It has become commonplace to see popular sentiment disdained, frustrated and sometimes decisively defeated by willful factions of minuscule size...
What members of these factions forget is that they are citizens not of a cause but of a country of many causes. The adamant attitude that gives some motorists victory on the expressway may well propel some other faction to triumph on another issue - environment, conservation, name it - in a way the motorist might deplore...
...last week Omni-Horizon faced some of the most serious safety charges ever hurled at an American car. Consumers Union, the influential nonprofit, product-testing group, announced that four Omni-Horizons it examined had failed two tests for stability and handling at expressway speeds (about 50 m.p.h.). The organization produced a 43-second film, rerun on several TV news programs, showing the Omni-Horizon careening terrifyingly. Consumers Union's conclusion: the average person might not have the skill to handle the car in a driving emergency. In the July issue of its magazine, Consumer Reports, C.U. will rate...