Word: trafficing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone has seen the gargantuan billboards; not noticing them is impossible. "The Big Dig--Worth Its Wait," they proclaim to the Boston community, trying to comfort the drivers stuck in never-ending traffic, wondering which new road they'll have to take this time. But the construction that has already been going on for years still has a ways to go, and the garish billboards may not placate the angry driver who can't help but wonder: "What the hell is this `Big Dig' anyway...
...those who seldom manage the trip from Cambridge to Boston, the idea of the Big Dig may be as foreign as Roxbury and Southie. However, most Bostonians know and abhor the constant reality that driving anywhere in the city means--fighting insufferable traffic, endless construction and inevitable road rage. According to many of these frustrated drivers, the root of the chaos is the Central Artery, an elevated, rust-coated hunk of steel that carries crawling traffic north to south through the middle of Boston...
Sullivan says athletes are not the only ones taking advantage of expanded service. After 7:30, most of the traffic is non-athletes who need a ride...
...grown-up children -- now in their fifties -- have been less than lukewarm about their husband and father returning to space from the first day NASA administrator Dan Goldin agreed to it. It's wasn't a happy scene for all the Glenn watchers, either -- drivers faced bumper-to-bumper traffic on the way to the Cape this morning, closed highways later on(the fact that the President drove in didn't help the situation any). And you could forgive space shuttle Discovery's army of technicians some jitters as they pumped in more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen...
Those would include cable TV, where most of the wire has already been laid; Viacom and Media One Group just unveiled big buybacks. Airlines are in a good spot because even though traffic slows as the economy weakens, industry leaders like AMR and Delta can stop buying planes and weed out old gas guzzlers. Dividend-paying electric utilities tend to have appeal in a weak economy anyway, but with deregulation, some (Consolidated Edison, New England Electric) have shed capital-intensive parts of the business--generating power--to focus on transmission. In trying times, companies able to conserve cash should hold...