Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many motorists, the amber traffic signal is more a challenge than a warning: instead of slowing down, they speed up, trying to beat the light before it changes. It is a hazardous practice, since there is no way of knowing precisely when the light will turn...
...display screens, airborne computers will show pilots precisely where to go, signal corrections if they stray off course. A command control plane will carry a computer no bigger than a big dictionary that will keep track of all planes in a strike; a similar computer could control the air traffic at a big-city airport...
...River Traffic Patterns. Hoping to eliminate every gap in Thailand's defense against possible future insurgents, the center's social scientists have conducted studies on subjects ranging from the work habits and mores of northern hill tribes to the security arrangements in provincial villages. "The most important thing we're trying to do," explains Holbrook, "is to find out what motivates some people to be sympathetic to the Communists...
Denaburg estimates that, exclusive of traffic cases, more than 80 per cent of the defendants in Recorder's Court are Negroes ("that's because of the conditions they live in"), but he insists that 'they get more than a square shake." The meaning is clear: crimes involving only Negroes are simply not regarded as serious by law enforcement officials. One top prosecuting attorney has remarked, for example, that a Negro who kills another Negro is generally charged with man-slaughter, while a white man who kills another white under similar circumstances is usually tried for murder...
...speeches, all equally inflammatory. The last one drew 2,000 people. It was supposed to be held in a church, but there wasn't enough room, so everyone moved out to the only place in North Philadelphia where there was enough -- the street. The rally took five hours and traffic was detoured around...