This trade-off explains why, as you travel parts of the country, interminable (and often empty) strips of black asphalt now traverse Afghanistan's vast expanses of sand and rock, but it doesn't explain why Afghans, thus compensated, are angrier than ever.
Low average velocity values (<0.2) led to the formation of small clusters of cells separated by empty strips.
They all stand empty, stripped of their machinery, which followed cheap labor to the Carolinas.
The only sign that this is Colorado Springs is that two churches sit adjacent to the club, La Zona Roja, in an empty strip mall.
Think of thousands of idled factories, acres of empty strip malls and ports packed with unsold automobiles, not to mention millions of workers who lost jobs as business scaled back production to keep up with falling demand.
Copenhagen's latest reinvention — there have been a number through the centuries — started in earnest when an international architectural competition was announced in 1994 to develop Orestad, then an empty strip of land about 600 meters, or 2,000 feet, wide and 5 kilometers, or 3.1 miles, long in the flatlands between the southern fringe of the capital and its international airport.
At times here the roads filled with cars as if it were an ordinary Sunday in this city of 22,000 people, where the fallout from the economic changes of the past decade are visible in the empty strip malls and the vacancy signs along the historic downtown square.
With that we followed our new friends along wide, dark boulevards — across Florence Avenue, up South Broadway to South Main Street, through a low-rise industrial terrain of concrete and stucco, past empty strip malls and auto shops, our route stitched by the glow of light poles, which far outnumbered royal palms this far south of downtown.
On a Monday morning in Los Angeles, in a half-empty strip-mall Starbucks on Reseda Boulevard, two young women are declaring their love for each other.
Ao Klong Chao is the island's most popular beach, but Ao Phrao in the south is a near-empty strip of equally lovely coast.
Those of us who live in the metropolitan area and are particularly shallow tend to regard upstate as a combination of half-empty strip malls and attractive but hard-to-reach scenery.
