Word: right-of-way
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...Navaho Indians in Arizona and New Mexico successfully negotiated with Atlantic Richfield to turn an initial $300,000 ARCO offer for right-of-way to build a pipeline across their land into a contract that will bring the tribe $78 million over the next 20 years...
...former Portland mayor and Secretary of Transportation under President Carter. Despite Washington's munificence, Portland, with an unpopular mass-transit tax on employers and a noisy constituency of diehard automobile fans, has taken pains to economize: once they leave downtown, the trains will speed along an existing right-of-way parallel to the humming Banfield Freeway...
...response from the states varied from cooperation to defiance. Some opened all their primary roads, others agreed to give the big rigs right-of-way over 50% or more of these highways. But the Federal Government was not taking no for an answer; when some states balked, the Department of Transportation as an interim measure added about 38,000 miles of road to the 101,000 miles the states had stipulated. If the states still refuse to comply, they could lose their federal highway funds...
...result of the staggered start is something on the order of a demolition derby, especially in the novice and youth events, where coxswains are less experienced. As the shells jockey for position on the turns, near collisions are the rule--rarely is a cox willing to cede the right-of-way if he thinks he can keep his place...
...Chicago when their car was bumped from behind by a Cadillac carrying four passengers. Two of them jumped from the Caddie, shot and killed Mark, then pistol-whipped Claudia and shot her in the right arm. More and more, say authorities, motorists are attacking one another with fists, knives, guns-or with the car itself-after minor accidents or quarrels over right-of-way...