Word: traffics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rummage sale were used to buy a machine for Seattle's Lakeside School. Gates devised a class-scheduling program so that he could take courses with the prettiest girls ... Teaming up with Paul Allen, a friend and schoolmate, Gates formed a pint-size company, Traf-O-Data, that studied traffic patterns for small towns near Seattle. When he was 15 and a tenth-grader, the company grossed $20,000 ... While he was working as a congressional page in 1972, he and a friend snapped up 5,000 McGovern-Eagleton campaign buttons for a nickel each just after South Dakota...
...term campaign designed to rid the city of shameful behavior before it hosts the 2010 World Expo, as many as 112,000 renegade pedestrians have been fined up to $6 each since May. That's not all. Offenders have had their salaries cut after pictures of them crossing against traffic were broadcast on the news. One woman spent 10 days in jail for contesting her fine and was eventually pressured to resign from her job. "If someone is caught jaywalking in front of strangers, they don't feel bad," says Yang Yulin, media officer for the Shanghai Civilization Committee...
This war has turned Beirut inside out. The city's usually snarled traffic is almost gone and the blaring noise of car horns is absent. Conversely, parks that are rarely used are now full of people - those who have fled the bombings in the south, east, north, and, well, pretty much everywhere in Lebanon...
...four boats belonging to Diego Crespo Sevilla chug out of a port in southwest Spain to enact an elaborate marine ambush. About 50 fishermen drop hundreds of red markers, attached to nets, which bob for nearly 2 km along the water's surface, forming rows as neat as traffic lanes on a highway. Then they maneuver their boats to form a wide square, and they wait. As the sun rises an hour [an error occurred while processing this directive] later, a drama begins to unfold. Nearly 200 huge tuna glide through the lanes until they find themselves trapped atop...
...their port city, Alexandria, the jewel of the Mediterranean, but it has lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from the Suez Canal and oil tankers from the Persian Gulf. "We not only have to manage Egypt but the whole world's waste," says Mohammed Borhan, director general of coastal and maritime zone management for the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. Pollution, like overfishing, threatens fish stocks...