Word: roading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Museveni says he still dreams of building a road from Uganda to Kisangani, fathering a Uganda-Congo economic and military alliance that would be among the strongest forces in Africa--an idea that is a nightmare for other African states...
...writes every day, no matter what. "It's heresy to say so, but the Beckett path--whereby you start out writing many words and you end up writing few--is, to me, deeply unattractive." Judging by recent events, there's little danger Hare will go down that unhappy road...
...Lexington Road is the rambling, dormered, brown-frame Orchard House, where in 1868 Louisa May Alcott wrote her masterpiece, Little Women, about four lively sisters, based on her real-life family. Visitors can still see the angels May Alcott ("Amy" in the book) sketched in her own room and the calla lilies she painted in the room where Louisa ("Jo") slept...
...picnic, rent a canoe at South Bridge and paddle the Sudbury and Concord rivers to North Bridge, tinderbox of the American Revolution and the setting of Emerson's Concord Hymn, which celebrated the "shot heard round the world"; or rent bicycles in Lincoln and ride the Revolution's Battle Road trail. Half an hour west by car is Fruitlands, the apple-studded farm where in 1843 Bronson Alcott cultivated the utopian community satirized by Louisa in her book Transcendental Wild Oats...
HOME RULE The IRS has been picky when it comes to taking deductions for using part of your home as an office. But a change in tax law taking effect this year will allow self-employed people who spend most of their time on the road but do administrative work in their home office--e.g., contractors and salespersons--to take the write-off. The old rule required that you do all work at home. But remember, the home office still must be used exclusively for your job to qualify...