Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a six-foot-high map of Manchester on the wall with polling places circled in red. Next to the map is taped the battle plan for the final week of this campaign. Wednesday: all day canvass with phone banks. Thursday: yard sign blitz, last day to fax list of identified supporters to Concord office. Friday: field continues to throw decks and fold in new supporters, focus on plant gates. Saturday: GOTV (get out the vote) efforts continue. Election day: ward coordinators meet at targeted polling place, dispatchers come on duty and forward rider requests to drivers, maintain visibility...
Miguel: They've got this groovy map of the world painted on the dance floor. Saudi Arabia is definitely the hot spot on this lukewarm planet. From here, you can scan the crowd on four continents...
Many of the routes converged on an area marked Omanum Emporium (the Omani Marketplace) on a map drawn by Ptolemy in the 2nd century A.D. The spot is in present-day Oman at the edge of the Empty Quarter, an appropriate designation for a trackless region infested with camel spiders, giant ticks and lethal carpet vipers. The team checked out the forbidding terrain in 1990 and began hunting in earnest last November. Just six weeks ago, says Clapp, "we were ^ within a whisker of total failure." Then the party decided to examine Ash Shisar, a water hole with ruins...
Such lofty ruminations were a long way from the thoughts of the typical visitor as he swung around his 14th switchback in 10 minutes, in a bus that labored painfully up the mountain curves like a slaloming snail, its driver consulting a map as he lurched along on the two-hour trip from Albertville to such distant sites as Courchevel and Val d'Isere. Any time not spent in a bus in the days before the Games seemed to be spent in a line for a bus. And on the epic rides along treacherous, icy roads, the passenger could...
...Andys swapped kisses in the Dakota Rock Bar. "The T-bone steak is with French fries and Mexican beans?" demanded a Nordic athlete of an Elvis-impersonating Frenchman, while the American at the next table, a drug tester, remarked wryly, "Yes, Ben Johnson really put doping on the map...