Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then that's what gives it its appeal. Esoteric rock, with a "message" can become as boring as vitamin pills--this stuff, however, doesn't fall into that trap. Typically an ARS song begins with a minimum of frills, a few tight riffs and you're rocking down the highway with them, wishing like Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan attorney that your tin-pot radio could turn higher...
...discount the importance of research based on observation and evaluation, particularly in city and regional planning; however, a correct definition of a problem is not necessarily, even half of the solution. The solution inevitably requires some actual step to be taken: a building built, a zoning ordinance passed, a highway constructed, a housing subsidy program enacted, and so on. Theoretical investigations divorced from implementation will lead nowhere...
Lance, a friend of Carter's for more than 10 years, served as Georgia highway commissioner when Carter was Governor. His country-boy manner masks a shrewd, tough mind. Says New York Republican Barber Conable, ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee: "Bert does a lot of talking about being a country boy. You know that kind-when he shakes your hand, you had better count your fingers." Cabinet members who appealed to Carter to restore Lance's cuts in their budgets were rebuffed. Says Jordan, no pushover himself as a bureaucratic infighter...
...variety of reasons. Cheap charter flights have drawn Americans to other exotic places. Tourists heard rumors of coups (that never took place) and decided to stay away. A few heavily publicized murders of American tourists sharpened the business decline. To allay fears, the government has reinforced safety, particularly on Highway 15, which runs south from Nogales, with troops and "green angels"-trouble cars that patrol the roads to help travelers...
...system, which would bring jobs and investment for liquefaction plants to the area. One key drawback to the plan is that the West Coast already has an ample supply of gas. Another is the possibility of tanker mishaps. The Alcan application, which proposes laying a pipeline alongside the Alcan highway, was dismissed by Litt as inefficient. He indicated that the line might not be big enough to handle the volume if, as expected, new discoveries are made in the rich Alaska fields...