Word: roading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Milne says that the costs of road improvements will be split equally between the institute, the city, and the project's developers, Forest City Enterprises of Cleveland. Final approval for the rezoning is expected at tonight's city council meeting...
These passages are numerous. Glashow is less than disturbed by French racism as he recounts his absolution for an automobile accident for which he now claims total responsibility. Driving drunk on the wrong side of the road, Glashow collided with an Arab driver, who was arrested instead of Glashow after the latter showed the police some official French documents...
Brown Down:Saturday, the Crimson (1-3 Ivy, 1-5 overall) will face Brown (0-3-1 Ivy, 0-5-1) in what should have been a stop on the road to a repeat Ivy championship. Instead, this game is shaping up as a test of just how far the Crimson has sunk. Will Harvard snap out of its doldrums long enough to bring down Brown...
West of Del Rio, Texas grows dryer by the mile. Tumbleweed bounces across the road and windmills draw up precious water for cattle. On the horizon, dust-shrouded hills appear, blue and mysterious-looking from afar. Roadrunners, heads down and tails up, sprint across the highway. River and road separate here as the Rio Grande, cutting through deep limestone canyons, makes a wide arc that has given this bulge of Texas the nickname Big Bend. Driving south through Alpine and Marfa, I see the border again at Presidio...
Perhaps it is more than just images. In Las Cruces, N. Mex., where the road west finally abandons the Rio Grande, I talk with historian Louis Sadler. "Americans have never really had to deal with fixed borders," he says. "Europeans have had centuries of experience, but until recently in the U.S. there was always room for expansion. I think we are still working out how to deal with borders and other cultures." Farther west in Tucson, Dr. Michael Meyer, director of the Latin America Center at the University of Arizona, points out the inordinate influence of American culture. "I doubt...