Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cape Highway, the land is low, sparsely covered with sickly shrubs, the snow peeled away by efficient state workers. If you had taken the scenic route, you would have seen the familiar clapboard houses, the mansions, the frozen sand dunes, the cranberry bogs frosted with icy time...
Johnson "saved" $68 million by shifting Lady Bird's highway beautification program out of the Administrative Budget and into the highway trust fund, which is kept separately; he also maneuvered his forest and public-road expenses from the general budget to the highway trust fund, thereby chopping another $42 million from the budget normally seen by the public. Food for Peace spending was cut $162 million, on the pure hunch that wheat and cotton prices will be lower next year. The President also said that he will reduce farm price supports by $145 million and space research...
Afghanistan today is known mainly for its hounds, carpets and pistachio nuts. Its rugged, ruin-strewn terrain is still strategically important, the geopolitical crossroads between China, Russia, India and Iran. But centuries ago it was a well-traveled highway. Remarked Hsüan-tsang, a 7th century Chinese Bud dhist pilgrim, of this 800-mile bridge between the East and West: "Here are found objects of merchandise from all parts...
...play "Head them off at the pass." When a vacationer at Treasure Mountain Resort, Utah, discovered that his skis had been swiped while he was buying a Chap Stick, he hopped into his car, took a short cut to the spot where the ski road meets the highway. As each car stopped for the traffic, he counted the number of skis on top, paired them off with the passengers until he found a car with one too many pair of skis. He was back on the slopes for a final run before his teen-age robbers had warmed...
...year concocted plans for a statewide information-retrieval system that would theoretically enable California to keep a Big Brother-like watch on its citizens; with the help of computerized data-storage units in various localities, officials in Sacramento could press a button to check up on local tax collections, highway repairs, personnel needs-eventually perhaps even alimony payments or political contributions. It may seem odd to laymen that space technology can be applied to such earthbound matters, but "systems management," the mastery of computerized complexity, remains the same in principle, whatever the problem to be solved...