Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against him in last week's Democratic primary. Gilman was defeated, 13,248 votes to 4,466, by James Wells, 44, a 21-year veteran of the sheriffs department. Wells is known locally as the "County Mounty," the nickname he has used during eleven years of broadcasting highway traffic reports on the radio. Said Gilman: "I just wanted to give the taxpayers what they pay for. But good guys finish last...
Such a drive can be an ego trip. Or it can be a rediscovery of old excitements: the fragrance of wood and leather, the closeness to the road, a sense of individualism preserved on the all-too-homogenized human highway...
...including Novelist Saul Bellow and Sociologist Daniel Bell, sent an open message of support to an Israeli peace group that had urged Begin to be more flexible in negotiations. Last week in Israel 4,000 members of an organization called Peace Now lined up along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in a demonstration on behalf of that cause. The gentle protest hardly daunted the peppery Begin, who told a more militant group known as Secure Peace: "We are called upon to do things likely to endanger our existence and our future, but to these demands we will respond with...
...installations should be augmented and distributed promptly--1375 Massachusetts homeowners have waited for more than a year for $400 solar hot water heating grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Citizens should encourages Congress to repeal legislation that encourages fossil fuel consumption--such as that establishing federal highway funds--and urge legislatures and councils to modify those institutional arrangements--such as outmoded utility rate structures and building codes--that hinder the application of solar energy technology...
...These...(he grimaced and searched the highway in front of him for words)...lunatics--they hired a shrink. They made us sit around in a circle and hold hands and tell each other what our problems were on the mound...so I said, "Fuck this, you're all crazy' and I left...