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Today a group of truck drivers block a few highways to demonstrate their financial woes. They win governmental concessions-and maybe the highway reopens...
...even periods of disenchantment, but it has always held together. More than any other purchased object, more even than other complex machines, the family car historically has been a symbol of status, power and freedom. For many citizens, few other experiences could match the exhilaration of rolling down the highway at 65 m.p.h.; fewer still could top the pride of telling the family that the latest raise would permit the purchase of a still bigger car, with air conditioning. With a car, one could live anywhere, work anywhere, travel anywhere and not have to bother about commuters' tickets or timetables...
...four ultramodern motels, three new gas stations, a bevy of postcard stands, a famous drugstore that does more than $1,000,000 worth of business annually and the highest per capita ownership of backyard swimming pools in the state?all because it happens to be handy to the interstate highway that vacationers travel to the Badlands, the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. Now a local construction firm has postponed building a $300,000, 46-unit motel, and Herb Pantke, 63-year-old attendant at one of the gas stations, has become the first person in town to lose...
Eminent domain is a legal process which allows certain companies, such as public utilities, or government agencies, such as highway departments, to sue for the right to take land against the owner's wishes...
...were going to say." Assistant Attorney General Robert Oglesby said that he was more relaxed when questioning a witness in front of a camera instead of a jury. The witnesses were more at ease too. All the cases decided involved appropriation of land for the widening of a major highway. Though the jury awards were higher than what the state had offered, Oglesby agreed with the judge and opposing counsel that the results would not have differed in conventional trials...