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...thinking himself a born luger and wondering which new Olympic events he could enter: free-style cursing, perhaps, or uphill climbing, or cheap skating (since a pair of tacos at the top of the mountains would set him back $16). When striking taxi drivers blocked the area's only highway for 10 hours one day, visitors had even more time to ponder the fact that a bob-sled here could travel 40 times faster than...
Scheme Z was designed as part of the plan to depress the elevated Central Artery underground. Under Scheme Z, four bridges over the Charles River would connect the state's Central Artery with the interstate highway system...
...Recession. A nonpartisan criticism of Clinton's tax program is that it might help the economy in the long run but would do nothing to jolt it out of the present slump. To do that, the Governor proposes a variety of measures: speeded-up spending on highway construction, new regulations that would prevent banks from foreclosing on homeowners or business people who can at least keep up interest payments on their loans. Generally, these ideas seem helpful but insufficient...
...that is perhaps the most visible sign that the consumer society of the Persian Gulf city-state has been restored to prosperity. The pace of reconstruction has been stunningly rapid. Essential services have been resumed; most government buildings have been repaired; ports have reopened. The debris-and-body-choked "Highway of Death" leading north toward Iraq has been cleared and opened to civilian traffic. Supermarket shelves are restocked with imported gourmet delicacies, and shops sell the latest fashions...
...BELIEVE, as many neo-liberals (and General Schwarzkopf) do, that the war in the Gulf was unfortunate, but that once we were in, we should have made sure we fought it to its end, is backwards. The problem in the Gulf was not that faced with the "highway of death," with the visible artifact of what we destroyed, we failed to finish...