Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Road with Bwana Brown
...lunch there is the ritual known as the walk. If the hickory, pine and bobolinks that grace the center's 15 acres are not enough, there is what may be termed the reality walk. A peripatetic scholar will stroll to the end of the center's private road and scuff pebbles along Alexander Drive while authentic truck drivers roar past. Then, with perspective restored and the latest Alice-Lucy masterpiece well on the road to digestion, it's back to the study. Or to a seminar. There are four ongoing seminars meeting this year, rather forbiddingly titled...
...five members, Alejandro González Malavé, 21, was an undercover agent for the police. He and the two youths stopped a cab on the outskirts of Ponce last July 25. At gunpoint they forced the driver, Julio Ortiz Molina, to take them up a remote mountain road...
...Carlson, who once threatened to drive nails up through a salesman's chair to get him out on the road, amply rewards performance. Roughly 20 executives get a new luxury car every year, and high-achievers can receive bonuses of up to 50% of their salary. To celebrate the company's ascension to the $1 billion sales mark, 39 senior officers and their spouses will be treated to a three-week trip through the Orient this month. More important, says Carlson, "my top executives will retire as millionaires...
Running alongside the great pipeline, for which it was built, the Alaskan Haul Road stretches 397 miles from Livengood (pop. 25), an old mining town north of Fairbanks, to the bleak oilfields of Prudhoe Bay. Following roughly a parallel course northeastward across similarly unspoiled wilderness, Canada's Dempster Highway extends 465 miles from historic Dawson (pop. 745) in the Yukon to the government-built showcase city of Inuvik (pop. 4,150), close to the Beaufort...