Word: pedestrian
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Selective amnesia is certainly the most mature and healthy approach. I also applaud his perceptive observation: "ethnic groups tend to have a myopic view of history, remembering their own history and nothing else." The pedestrian observer might peruse a typical high school history book and conclude that all types of students, ethnic or otherwise, must learn their share of mainstream US history...
Scott Levitan, director of university and commercial properties at Harvard Planning and Real Estate and Harvard's representative on the 15-member Quincy Park design committee, said the park will be most beneficial to students for its contribution to increased pedestrian safety...
Another bill, sponsored by council member Mary I. Naber '98, calls for the council to pressure the Metro District Commissioner of Massachusetts to place a pedestrian crossing sign at the intersection of John I. Kennedy Street and Soldiers Field Road, across from the gates to the athletic complex Naber said she and others have seen several students hit by cars at that intersection...
Vidal is a first-rate essayist, one of America's finest, though a rather more pedestrian novelist and playwright. His memoir lacks the sharp, confident voice of his essays, while the characters, like those in his novels and plays, often come across as wooden and two dimensional. He complains over and over to the reader of his frayed memory, his disinclination to look backward, his lack of a diary (he relies altogether too much on other people's memoirs instead). As a result, Palimpsest has a kind of haphazard feel, with the present frequently intruding upon the past...
...took issue with a report by the engineering firm Rizzo and Associates, who told the city council that the lane shrinkage would provide pedestrians and drivers with an improved view of one another, thereby increasing safety. "I'm worried there will be either an impact on traffic flow or on pedestrian safety," Galluccio said...