Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embarrassment of riches. Nearly everyone involved in Government spending overestimated needs and wound up using far less money than expected. The Department of Defense fell $1.9 billion short of its projected outlays for payrolls, operations, research and development. Transportation spending was $400 million below target because states let fewer highway-construction contracts. Payouts to veterans were down $400 million...
...coward instead of a discreetly valorous realist. There were good explanations (ignored by Shakespeare) for each of his acts of apparent cowardice. Says Falstaff. Naturally a fighter of his experience and ferocity could have vanquished the disguised Prince Hal, when Hal stole his loot from him after the highway robbery lark (Henry IV, Part I) at Gadshill. But that would have destroyed the confidence of the next King of England, so Falstaff let Hal win. And as for stabbing dead Hotspur and claiming to have killed him in battle, well, Hotspur might not really have been dead. Why take chances...
...some of the heaviest righting of the war, the Syrian troops that originally arrived on a "peacekeeping" mission punched their way down the mountainous Damascus-Beirut highway last week to the outskirts of the Lebanese capital. Twenty-five miles to the south, Syrian armor drove to within range of Sidon, the only significant port and supply depot still in Palestinian-leftist hands. The two-part attack, if it succeeds, will reduce Palestinian-held territory to three enclaves cut off from ammunition and fuel. If that happens, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, "the war in effect will be over...
...Bekaa. As town after town was hit, Palestinian defenders took advantage of the mist and smoke from exploding rounds to slip out of their positions. Arafat himself had nearly been hit earlier when Syrian gunners rained shells and rockets into Aley, a resort town on the Beirut-Damascus highway where the P.L.O. leader was conferring with his military commanders in a luxury villa...
Ford also intends in due course to make the new system available in passenger cars. Engineer James Clarke, who heads the DDE project, is already driving a car equipped with an eight-cylinder version. On a highway trip, he believes he might be able to cut fuel consumption by as much...