Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Government and state bureaucrats have made liars and thieves of us all," adds a driver. "Everybody finds ways around the rules." Just to break even, they all feel, they must break the speed limit, drive longer than the regulation ten hours or 450 miles at a stretch, and doctor their logbooks...
...Royce), is concerned but a bit more optimistic: "The future is secure as long as we keep this place as a getaway. If the funkiness goes, everything goes." Those opposed to further fast growth lost a big battle just last week when voters in all of the Keys, which stretch 100 miles into the gulf from Florida's southern tip, overwhelmingly approved a new $42 million water pipeline from the mainland that some warned would open the floodgates of growth...
However, Princeton ran off four straight points and the Crimson never seriously threatened again, watching their stretch run stifled...
...Europe and the U.S. The city, built along the banks of the sluggish Tigris River, was one of the principal locales of The Thousand and One Nights. Today, with 20-story buildings rising above its graceful mosques, it looks every bit the citadel of Baath power that may soon stretch from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean...
...bumpy stretch of gasoline shortages and substantially higher prices may well be lurking just around the bend for American motorists. That was the message coming from Washington and the nation's oil industry last week. The threat of scarcities is being raised by the political upheaval in Iran, which has virtually shut down that country's vast oilfields and is reducing supplies worldwide. Last week Energy Secretary James Schlesinger warned that unless Iran's wells are pumping again by April 1-which is unlikely, given the complexity of the job of resuming production even if the political...