Word: miles
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...graduate of the University of Iowa is taking full advantage of Harvard's academic offerings. "It's like a smorgasbord of desserts a mile long," says Pippert of his program this spring. He is auditing courses by three big-name professors--John Rawls, Robert Coles and Nadav Safran--as well as a Business School course on "Power and Influence...
Illinois: Lincoln-Morton Link. Already under construction, the 31-mile highway will connect Interstates 74 and 55, cutting 40 miles off the trip from Peoria to St. Louis. Backed by House Minority Leader Robert Michel, who represents the area, the stretch would provide an alternative to Route 121, two lanes of inadequate winding blacktop on which highballing truckers terrify motorists. Total price tag: $135 million, of which the highway bill provides $17 million...
Pennsylvania: Altoona to Tyrone. State Road 220 is congested and heavily traveled. A twelve-mile stretch will be widened from two to four lanes, ultimately linking economically depressed Altoona to I-80 and New York City. Price: $90 million. Federal share: $45 million...
...amount of other unavoidable claims upon it?" That President was Andrew Jackson in 1830, and he had enough political clout to make his veto of the Maysville Road Bill stick. The graveled National Road that aroused Old Hickory's ire has, of course, evolved into today's 44,000-mile Interstate Highway System. But the 19th century conflict between pork barrel and public purse endures as a staple of American democracy, often pitting a fiscally conscious President against a Congress determined to deliver better transportation to the voters who elected...
...rather than risk losing more political capital on a hopeless cause. The President also dismissed Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole's warning that his chances of success could be as low as 1 in 100. Instead, with the firm declaration "I want to do it," Reagan traveled the extra mile down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol to plead personally with Senate Republicans for the single vote he needed to sustain his veto...