Word: right-of-way
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...have heard, 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' Ye have heard it said, 'sideswipe for sideswipe, right-of-way refused for right-of-way refused.' But I say unto you, 'Turn the other fender.' If someone gets in your way at a green light, let him be first at the next light. And whosoever shall try to pass thee imprudently with a less powerful car, slow down to let him do it more easily. I say unto you, love your enemies, love those who drive dangerously. They are in peril...
...root between 3000 and 5000 families and claim several thousand jobs. One alignment further East, down Portland and Albany Streets on the fringe of M.I.T.'s campus, will take from 2300 to 5000 jobs (depending on whose figures you believe). And a third possible route, using the right-of-way along railroad tracks running through part of M.I.T.'s campus, will take a significant number of laboratories as well as claiming more than a thousand jobs and several hundred homes...
...often with dragged thornbushes) by African tribesmen working off their tax debts. Along its flat stretches, the road is little more than a trail of treacherous sand or soap-slick mud. Black, blinding rains and eerie mists make it all but impassable from October to May, and the right-of-way is often usurped by two-ton rhinos, herds of elephant and lions basking...
...late December, the DPW delayed announcing the Belt route to allow the City to come up with an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. Path. Traffic consultants for Cambridge have been working for the past six weeks on a design for the highway that would run along the right-of-way of railroad tracks in East Cambridge...
Subterranean routes would require no right-of-way at all. However, with present tunneling techniques, Selfert feels that the cost of building an underground roadbed would be greater than the cost of acquiring the necessary right of way...