Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grande would get out of the unprofitable passenger business and make some money on its tracks from Denver to Salt Lake City by leasing Amtrak the right of way. In turn, Amtrak would hope to gain more passengers on its Chicago-Oakland route by changing the train's path so that it crossed more spectacular terrain. The former route traversed southern Wyoming; the new route, and the new train, will cut through the Colorado Rockies...
Crossing the Yard the other day, I stooped to pick up one or two of the tin cans and papers that lay in the path I was following. As I straightened up and went on my way, I overheard a little knot of French visitors who had been watching me with amazement. They stared for a minute at me and then at the rectangles of ragged grass, with their uprooted palins and their usual scatteration of papers, bottles, and plastic wrappers smeared with remnants of junk food "Tiens!" exclaimed one of the women. "It's democracy in action. The Americans...
...help solve it." The proposal to lower the tax cap to $160 drew some hoots. "The Administration is making a terrible philosophical and political mistake," Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon warned Stockman. "Eventually [the public] will turn and snap at us. You're going down the wrong path if you want to cut off debate on national health insurance...
...neutral nation that has long steered a careful path between the two superpowers, Sweden reacted to the spying with unusual harshness. The government recalled its Ambassador to Moscow, and Socialist Prime Minister Olof Palme summoned Soviet Ambassador Boris Pankin for an hourlong dressing down. Declared Palme: "The gross violations of Swedish territorial integrity should be roundly condemned...
Wilson plotted a direct path to prominence. The privileged and provincial son of a Red Bank, N.J., lawyer, he saw that a career in literary journalism rather than academic criticism would lead him to the power he desired. In hundreds of reviews and in books like Axel's Castle, he introduced a wide and insular American audience to the world's leading writers and most important historical events. To the Finland Station gave depth and drama to the Russian Revolution, and his essay "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!" deflated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit long before...