Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overcast in Worcester. The air was heavy, and the clouds were ready to explode. The traffic on Route 9 was light, but steady. On the shores of Lake Quinsigamond, people wandered about, looking for a comfortable vantage point along the rocky banks or hovering over the Tastee-Freeze trucks with visions of soft ice cream twinkling in their eyes...
Carter admits there is an oil crisis, but he opposes the most important thing that can be done to meet this crisis: developing a transportation system that does not depend 100 per cent on the automobile and the airplane. This means a rail system, because: (1) with sufficient traffic, railroads are the most fuel-efficient form of transportation; and (2) railroads can and should be electrified (as in Europe) because electricity can be generated by almost any fuel. It will take years to develop such a system, and we can not wait until the oil is gone to begin...
...paradise: free movies, bountiful booze, great food and beautiful people all converge under the sunny skies of the Cóte d'Azur. Would that it were so. In reality, the festival is a grotesque trade fair. The few good movies are mobbed; the best restaurants are overbooked; traffic jams glut the countryside; it often rains. The festival celebrates money, not art, and only the industry's hustlers seem to have fun. For anyone else, a day in Cannes is like a week in Vegas...
...seemed on Derby day. Franklin broke the colt cleanly from the gate, then held him under firm control through the clubhouse turn. In the backstretch, he took Spectacular Bid to the outside, avoiding the tight traffic near the rail. When Flying Paster moved up inside on the far turn, Franklin held his ground. Spectacular Bid looked Flying Paster right in the eye and then went to work. As they swung into the home stretch, Franklin and Spectacular Bid were free and clear. "I talked to him and tweaked him," said Franklin later, "and he moved right up. I said...
Arguing that such environmental fears are exaggerated, pro-roaders see bonanzas at the ends of both highways. Despite the caution of Alaska state officials, the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce believes that the Haul Road could be bustling with so much traffic by 1985 that it will steer an extra $15 million a year into their city. The Dempster's boosters see one certain payoff. No longer will residents of Inuvik and the outlying Mackenzie Delta, where oil exploration is now being expanded, need to import most of their food, fuel, clothing, machinery and other supplies by expensive airfreight...