Those local governments in turn used the loans to provide economic stimulus through highway construction and other infrastructure improvements, as well as an overbuilding of homes and office buildings.
"It's a big relief that no motorist was passing through our highway when boulders rolled down from the mountainside, " she said.
The most ambitious project is the 3, 600-mile Alaskan pipeline, which will run from the North Slope along the Alcan Highway through the Yukon and British Columbia.
Back then, the nation was in the grips of another Iran-related oil crisis, and to many, this highway through the Utah desert seemed like the road to energy security.
As the long queues of vehicles progressed slowly through the crowded highway, police cars were racing along the emergency lane to the same destination while their colleagues monitored the scene from the helicopters hovering above.
Then I drove out on the highway and through all the towns in the Hamptons, with my hair blowing in the wind and the dog riding shotgun beside me.
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With a major two-lane highway running through it, Mikumi National Park might be one of the only places in the world to offer views of wild animals and grassy savannahs for the price of a bus ticket.
Allegedly, from 2007 through 2009, through Brooklyn-based Highway Furniture and, later, Hempstead-based New York Funding, and Defendants Jacquet, Mansour, Romeo, and Hudson engaged in a scheme to falsely and fraudulently improve the credit histories and credit scores of thousands of individuals.
When people come to visit, I drop the top on my old convertible and take them up the Pacific Coast Highway into Malibu, through Topanga Canyon down the 101 (immortalized in the America song "Ventura Highway") into "The Valley" and then on to Mulholland Drive, where the winding road along a ridgeline provides breathtaking views.
It's a 180-mile stretch of highway that cuts through the area's marshlands to coastal towns flattened by Hurricane Rita.
Much of the money has gone on infrastructure: a (mainly) asphalted highway now runs through the area, linking it to the cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.
One of the Middle East's most scenic and ancient routes, the 280km-long highway is often overlooked in favour of the modern Desert Highway, which marches through Jordan's flat and sandy core in a speedy three and a half hours from the capital, Amman.
The only road that passes through the district is the key Karakoram Highway (KKH) that connects Pakistan with China.
For natural reasons fewer concessions have been made in the interest of getting through the air than cruising down the highway.
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Yet off the highway, one quickly passes through cinderblock villages through open fields and into El Yunque, the tropical forest that dominates the eastern part of the island.
The highway and rail project is slicing through the Mzymta River watershed, felling hundreds of mature trees.
There was a lot of yelling as we pulled away through the circling traffic and back out onto Highway 101.
Getting there means a 100-mile detour through the mountains, first on the Edgerton Highway, then a rough gravel track for the last 60 miles.
"This particular appeal was based upon the interpretation of wording on the highway and the reference to 'through traffic', " a spokesman said.
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Brazil and Peru have nearly completed a highway to carry goods from Brazilian farms through the Amazon and over the Andes to Peru's Pacific ports.
In Cortez, you had to detour through an endless engineering endeavor meant to straighten out the highway, which used to be sexy 666 but had been newly, inoffensively renumbered.
Back in July when I first drove the Model S, I had no idea Team Tesla was watching my troll through the streets of Manhattan and on the West Side Highway.
Dawn ascends near Southampton, where Highway 27 becomes a slow two-laner and winds through Bridgehampton and Amagansett.
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And slicing through the central part of the state is Interstate 4, the highway connecting Tampa to Orlando.
As black smoke billowed over the highway in front of him, Berti held his breath and drove through it.
Rollhaus is also offering, through 74 distributors worldwide, an array of new products from snow-plowable highway reflectors to high-tech anti-icing systems for bridges.
Now, is it possible that this "highway" mentioned in Chapter 35 is actually Interstate 35 that runs through six U.S. states, from southern Texas to northern Minnesota?
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Before the carretera (highway), the only road access to this remote part of Patagonia involved travelling through neighbouring Argentina, meaning that the region retains a spectacularly rugged, unspoiled environment and a strong identity.
" The title track has the rhythm of turning wheels, and Mr. Earle sings about "the ghost of America watching me, through the broken windows of the factories, naked bones of a better day, as I rolled down the low highway.
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