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...quite often owing to the very sins typical of government: bureaucracy and inflexibility. But sooner or later, market forces catch up. Something similar will have to happen in government. Cities are already bringing competition into the picture by privatizing services, including street cleaning, police, even prisons. The new federal highway bill partly privatizes road maintenance. Privatization is not the answer to everything, but some enthusiasts, including Norman Macrae of the Economist, suggest that people will someday elect commercial firms instead of politicians to run their cities...
Being the host of the Tonight show is not a job but a secular anointment. He is not just a walking, talking soporific for millions of Americans who watch him from between their feet, but a kind of nightly tour guide to the culture, a familiar stop on the highway of dreams, one of the few still points in the spinning landscape of American life...
...Along Highway 80 in West Texas between Midland and Odessa, giant drilling rigs sit rusting in the winter sun. Gas wells that dot the bleak mesquite- covered prairie lie shut down. Downtown Midland has the stark look of an evacuated city, with empty storefronts and vacant building lobbies...
...their ties and common sense in reckless crusades for adventure. The central character, played by film actor Griffin Dunne, reacts to a busted marriage and a Florida income tax problem by turning to a trio of cliche badass pursuits: cross-country wandering (the show's sole set is a highway), crime (involving, naturally, suitcases of white powder) and moviemaking. Of these, Korder presents the cinema as the most corrupt; it takes an impromptu murder to get the antihero really launched as a mogul...
Vertical Section Looking From Boston TowardCambridgeSCHEME CIP 8.1D: The revised proposal,with fewer and lower elevated sections of highway...