Word: roading
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Going digital was a much rockier road in the U.S., mainly because the FCC chose to let competing technologies duke it out in the market. The result: Qualcomm, Ericsson and others squabbled over whose standard would "win." None did, so we're left with a hodgepodge of incompatible networks and a gaggle of abbreviations (GSM, CDMA, TDMA, IDEN) that are not only confusing but also confining, restricting us to a particular carrier's coverage area and delaying the roll-out of advanced services...
Dorothy followed her yellow brick road as it spiraled outward toward redemption and homecoming (to the true Kansas of our dreams and possibilities). The road of the newly adopted Kansas curriculum can only spiral inward toward restriction and ignorance...
...offer low-cost vans and private-car services. But city buses and taxis are often all there is. Losing a license is like a death sentence to most people. That's why the adult children of elderly drivers will usually not intervene--even when Mom or Dad is a road menace. Members of one Detroit family tried to persuade the grandfather, 96, to sell his Cadillac because he kept crashing into a tree next to the driveway. Instead he chopped down the offending object...
Under the Brandi Jo law, all drivers 75 and older would have to take a vision test, as well as a written and road test every five years. The tests would come every three years after age 80, every two years after 85 and annually after...
Then, five years later, I met Les Schofield. I'd heard from Giri, his hair still raised from our road adventures (to unwind, he climbs mountains in Nepal), that a company in Springfield, Mass., was making a new kind of car I should check out. The next morning--I'd waited long enough--my wife and I drove the 80 miles down the Mass. Pike from Boston. We found Schofield, a powerfully built man with a kind, open face and prodigious hands, working on his invention, a prototype as yet driven only...