Word: out-of-the-way
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...female Chancellor. Bush and Schröder barely spoke, but Bush and Merkel hit it off when she visited the White House in January, and the overnight Stralsund detour is indicative of the President's new stab at European diplomacy: find friends, even if the effort takes you to out-of-the-way places...
...UNDER THE HARVARD MAN’Today, while parking and congestion in the Square is still a problem, it is no longer a concern for most Harvard students. The inconvenience and expense of owning a car at Harvard—$1,585 per year to park in various out-of-the-way University lots—discourage almost everyone from bringing a car to campus.According to Jeff Parenti, a senior traffic engineer for the city of Cambridge, traffic congestion stems from a simple problem: there are simply “too many cars and not enough streets on which...
...ride his Vespa scooter to them each night, a quality-control measure he uses in Manhattan. Still, Batali won't run out of culinary ideas any time soon. On his Mac he keeps a database of 20,000 recipes collected over the years on his travels to out-of-the-way Italian towns like the one where he apprenticed. So how big can Batali Inc. grow? The chef insists that he won't open a restaurant in an airport or push his cookware on a shopping network like QVC. Yet when I first met him six years ago, Batali said...
...back. Violent local protests are convulsing the Chinese countryside with ever greater frequency--and Beijing has proved unable to quell the unrest. By the central government's own count, there were 87,000 "public-order disturbances" in 2005, up from 10,000 in 1994. Most took place in out-of-the-way hamlets like Panlong, where peasants who were once the backbone of the Communist Party feel excluded from China's full-throttle economic development. Many of China's 900 million rural inhabitants are farmers, who have little legal or political leverage. They have borne a disproportionate share...
...used to be well-groomed," he says ... Since he sleeps only when he is sleepy, he calls up his lieutenants at all hours of the night. Sometimes he identifies himself as Mr. Hoyt. He has had a number of other aliases ... He likes to make business appointments in out-of-the-way spots, usually at night, and he is always 30 minutes to two hours late, if he shows up at all. --TIME, July...