Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCann repeatedly declared that the opponents of the underpasses had been conspicuously silent on the issue of the "Inner Belt" highway, an eight lane expressway that would pass through the heart of Central Square and probably displace about 1000 families...
Furthermore, steady progress on the interstate highway system -- especially in New Hampshire and Vermont -- has meant that travel time to the major ski areas in the Northeast is constantly being reduced...
When a dozen highway patrolmen emerged from Sproul--bent on moving the public address system forward to clear the top step--a roar of protest went up from the crowd...
From the new highway snaking through the jungles of western Hon duras to the huge irrigation and power project that is transforming Pakistan's Indus River Basin, many of the world's underdeveloped areas owe much to an organization that most Westerners have never heard of. The organization is the International Development Association, a branch of the World Bank founded in 1960 by 15 World Bank member nations to make "soft," easy-term loans-with no political strings attached-to poor nations. Last week IDA reached a milestone when the total it has loaned passed $1 billion...
...most, receiving $485 million for industrial imports, railways and telecommunications. Pakistan is next with credits of $242.7 million, $58 million of it for the Indus Basin development. IDA has also lent to emerging African nations a total of $72 million for such projects as a 112-mile, all-weather highway across Swaziland and school construction in Tanganyika. Latin America has been granted nearly $100 million to build transportation and agricultural facilities and to improve municipal water supplies...