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hair-raising tales of outlaws who ambushed coaches traveling the high roads
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Rounding out the top three is Switzerland, which also has a very low road traffic death rate of 2.2 per 100,000 people, low fuel and EV charging costs, and a very high road quality score of 6.3 out of 7.
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2024
Speeding isn’t the only reason why the US has such high road fatality rates.
—Marin Cogan, Vox, 13 May 2024
In the United States, thousands of ‘high road’ restaurants are paving the way to a better industry, not just leading with their great food but their values.
—Saru Jayaraman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
If 2016 Obama was singing the virtues of the high road, firmly but selectively pushing back on a presidential candidate who had peddled falsehoods about her husband, her 2020 speech shot fire from that high road by using Trump’s words against him.
—Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2024
Speeding isn’t the only reason why the US has such high road fatality rates.
—Marin Cogan, Vox, 13 May 2024
In the United States, thousands of ‘high road’ restaurants are paving the way to a better industry, not just leading with their great food but their values.
—Saru Jayaraman, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
If 2016 Obama was singing the virtues of the high road, firmly but selectively pushing back on a presidential candidate who had peddled falsehoods about her husband, her 2020 speech shot fire from that high road by using Trump’s words against him.
—Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
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“High road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20road. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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