Where the road dropped away after a crest, the Rogue settled down quickly.
In the two years after the reconstruction, car accidents on the new road dropped by 66 percent and injuries by 60 percent.
The Titans, who had lost three of four on the road, dropped behind Cleveland and Buffalo in the A.F.C. wild-card race.
"The trails are windy, and there are edges where the road drops off sharply," a Darpa spokeswoman, Jan Walker, said.
The narrow road drops down a rocky bluff, and for those few moments I can imagine I'm in Germany.
Indeed, as we passed under the sign welcoming us into India's most populous state, the road dropped by about a foot.
Soon the road dropped down again to reach a picturesque thatched house, buildings of banded brick and flint, and a sudden high, wooded ridge.
FROM the hills, farms and forests of the mid-Hudson Valley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wisp of road drops patiently down to Valhalla.
After the Argentine border, the road drops dramatically, twisting along intestinal tracts that wind their way around bald, crumpled hills - green, pink, yellow, aquamarine, like some psychedelic Battenberg.
In a color photograph called "Pitfall on the Way to a New Neo-Plasticism," he has collapsed on a cobbled road, dropping the three items he was carrying: a blue blanket, a yellow jerrycan and a red book.
