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Qin formed a centralized, autocratic government, built a nationwide network of roads and canals, standardized weights, measures and currency and formalized the written language.
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It may be useful to think of a computer network as being like a system of roads.
ECONOMIST: Companies and information
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It is not undeserved: he has succeeded in transforming a barren land into one that has 18, 000 kilometres (11, 400 miles) of tarmac roads and a network of schools and clinics.
ECONOMIST: Botswana
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The council said it also had a network of community groups gritting roads in their villages and parishes.
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Throwing up barricades to block the country's limited network of trunk roads is a traditional, and effective, means of protest in Bolivia.
ECONOMIST: Bolivia
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For less-skilled riders, Ubin also has a network of rolling and flat gravel roads, and even the odd sealed stretch.
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He called for a measure that puts a requirement on highways authorities to develop and maintain a network of paths as they do roads.
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But events - even those with a comic element like the McKinley episode - continue to demonstrate what Senator Frank Lautenberg called the almost incomprehensible magnitude of trying to secure a US transport network which includes 3.9 million miles of roads, 600, 000 bridges, 361 ports and more than 5, 000 public-use airports.
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Take a guided snowmobile tour through Truckee's network of logging roads, which cover about 650sq miles, with Eagle Ridge Snowmobile.
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The council said about a third of the road network is made up of first and second priority roads, which are gritted within three and five hours during severe weather.
BBC: Gritter
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Luckily there is a network of hiking trails to get you into the backcountry and away from the roads.
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