Phil Young, 27, a pavement contractor from Middletown N.Y., said he had booked a week in the Holiday Inn on the New York side for his family.
The National Cooperative Highway Research Program defines "roughness" as "the deviations of a pavement surface from a true planar surface with characteristic dimensions that affect vehicle dynamics, ride quality, and dynamic pavement loads [21]." Factors contributing to roughness, in a general sense, include vertical alignment, cracks, joints, potholes, patches and other surface distresses.
Metal stairs take you down to the remnants of a mosaic pavement from the imperial palace, built by the Emperor Justinian nearly 1,500 years ago.
She explains that she was a street trader – a "Madame Sarah" as Haitians call them, the lowest form of trader – selling hand cream, sandals and jeans on a pavement not far from Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince
While still an art student at the University of Utah, he executed a homage to Yves Klein's famous 1960 "Leap Into the Void," a doctored photograph showing Klein doing a swan dive to the pavement from a roof ledge in a Paris suburb.
The museum also acquired a sculpture of a Bactrian princess dating from the third millennium BC, a pavement and fountain set from the early Ottoman period, as well as the paintings Breton Boys Wrestling (1888) by Paul Gauguin and The Subjugated Reader (1928) by René Magritte.
When a microphone breaks its moorings, falling from the 'sky' and shattering on a pavement a few yards from Truman, his puzzlement is quickly answered by a radio news bulletin describing debris falling from a passing airliner.
There is in the city a mosaic Roman pavement from the 4th-century Basilica of St. Quirinus, and a Temple of Isis was uncovered in 1957.
We're standing, unharrassed, on a pavement not 50 metres from the hotel.
In one of several "die-ins", demonstrators lay in silence on a pavement about a block from where the Christmas tree lighting ceremony was under way at Rockefeller Center.
