Oddly, the Western television networks have fallen into a rut over St Petersburg, asking if Obama can "narrow the gap" between himself and Putin.
As a convoy of big armored vehicles picked their way, rut by rut, over the village's zigzagging lanes toward the well, the dubious scene easily evoked the skepticism that has dogged the rebuilding effort all over the country.
But we can tell you that we had each in similarly hairy conditions cutting through 6-inch-deep mud ruts, bounding over 2-liter-cola-bottle-size rocks, crawling up expert-level-steep ski slope grades and neither SUV even broke a sweat, let alone came vaguely close to becoming stuck.
We drove it up and down roads with half-foot-deep ruts, over Manhattan-White-Pages-thick boulders, and in situations where only three wheels could stay put (rolling over hugely off-camber, twisted terrain) and never once did we get hung up.
But now a handful of places will help corporate lawyers or senior financial officers who feel trapped in a rut really turn over a new leaf.
In 2009, the fight against climate change had been stuck in a rut for over two decades.
In her prime, she gave 150 speeches per year, traveling by buckboard or carriage over rutted roads before the invention and availability of train travel.
Hinduism, though, is the diversion that really sticks, and much of the novel is taken up with John's dogged attempts to penetrate earthly illusions and to free himself from his vasanas, those irritating behavioural ruts carried over from previous lives.
From vintage footage of ladies with an Olive-from-On-The-Buses air about them inelegantly riding donkeys and close-ups of Union Jack swimming trunks, through to the tribe of twats who now descend on the place, liberated from whatever keeps them in check at home and puke-rutting all over the national reputation, a sense of rise and fall is nicely illustrated.
And then he punched it: straight into ruts and over rocks, whipping around hills, gunning through the gears, copping several feet of air multiple times.
With these enhanced binder characteristics, the asphalt concrete specimens showed an increase of tensile strength and resilient modulus and also improved rutting resistance over conventional asphalt concrete.
