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Word: stoplight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rural, one-stoplight town has one thing in abundance: bars. When all the college kids go home for the summer, these bars fill up with beer-drinking, tobacco-spitting, tavern league softball junkies...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Love and Hate | 10/2/1987 | See Source »

...didn't want to put another stoplight because there are about four in a row there," said City Councillor Alice K. Wolf. "But now people don't stop when pedestrians try to cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...Mount Snow (802 464-3333) take Route 2 West to Interstate 91 North. Get off at Exit 2, Brattleboro, Vermont, and then follow Route 9 West 20 miles to Wilmington. At the stoplight turn right onto Route 100 North. From there it's nine miles to the slopes...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Vermont's Best White Powder | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

...WERE WAITING at a stoplight in Central Square when I noticed two women in long formal gowns waving at me from inside a Shell station. "Pull up," I told the cabbie, and we picked up these women and their dates, crowding six into the legally-mandated space for five. As we careened down Mass. Ave. the cabbie turned to me and asked, "What are all these tuxedos in the Square...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Dazed and Confused | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

...most flagrant scofflaw of them all is the red-light runner. The flouting of stop signals has got so bad in Boston that residents tell an anecdote about a cabby who insists that red lights are "just for decoration." The power of the stoplight to control traffic seems to be waning everywhere. In Los Angeles, red-light running has become perhaps the city's most common traffic violation. In New York City, going through an intersection is like Russian roulette. Admits Police Commissioner Robert J. McGuire: "Today it's a 50-50 toss-up as to whether people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Red Light for Scofflaws | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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