Word: freeway
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That was when the team found the Los Altos place, five bedrooms for four people. The rent is reasonable, Zuckerberg says, mainly because the backyard runs along the freeway, which also takes care of neighbor’s noise complaints...
...became a master of deep abdominal breathing. "It's pretty amazing, because older folks tend to not be as open to this type of therapy," says Symreng. Highland put his new skills to the test when he was struck by a horrific shooting pain while driving on a Sacramento freeway. "As soon as I felt it," he recalls, "I just breathed through my nose and let it go out my open mouth without moving my chest--two or three times. I felt relief almost instantaneously...
...million), and the capital is booming. Streets are jammed with American cars, creating a monumental traffic problem that the Development Board's new bridges over the Tigris have not begun to solve. The board's bulldozers are flattening 300 slum houses and bazaar shops to open a new freeway through the city center. Now that the floods have been stemmed, the city is spreading beyond the dikes where handsome villas are rising for the new, well-to-do middle classes ... France's Le Corbusier will build a sports stadium, and 88-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright returned enthusiastically from Baghdad...
Congress in the 1950s expressly rejected tolls as a way of financing the nation's interstate highways. But the Bush Administration, faced with an aging freeway system and a lack of money for building and maintenance, is rethinking the idea. Mary E. Peters, head of the Federal Highway Administration, has called Perry's TTC plan a "bold concept." President Bush has threatened to veto any increase in the nation's 18.4˘ gasoline tax and has expressed support for tolls on interstate highways. Other states, such as California, Missouri and Minnesota, are closely watching the Texas toll experiment...
...rumble on at unexpected moments. The Escape Hybrid can run solely on electric power when idling and at speeds of up to 25 m.p.h. But unless you accelerate gently, the engine will come on at lower speeds. Also, the engine revved noticeably loudly when I increased speed on the freeway...