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" R & D help spur on patents and other scientific innovations that leads to productive growth in such areas as industry, medicine, engineering, and government.
Today, the most obvious route through the circle leads motorists directly to and from the Taconic State Parkway, and the way to NY 22 northbound is considered to be a little spur off the circle.
The primary road access to the Queenstown area is via State Highway 6 ( SH6 ), which travels from Cromwell through the Kawarau Gorge to Frankton, where a 9 km spur ( SH6A ) leads to the CBD and connects with the Glenorchy Road.
The former leads to and from a spur leading to the roundabout in Briton Ferry, formerly known as junction 41A, and the original bridge over the River Neath, which would allow access onto the stretch of the M4 from junction 43 westward.
Its southern terminus is in San Luis, Arizona, on the Mexican border, where a short spur leads to Mexican Federal Highway 2 at San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora.
To distinguish the spur on road signs, the road it leads to is usually given-for example " Gatwick Airport ( A23 )".
At Winwick there is a separate dual-carriageway spur of the A49 which leads to junction 25 of the M6 from a roundabout-the Bryn Interchange.
It took a route very close to a northwest-southeast path as a spur of its long-distance nominal parent route U. S. 40, which leads eastward ( and still exists ) to Baltimore.
There is a spur off the main line above the lower station which leads to the depôt where all the rolling stock is housed and maintained ; this complex was completely rebuilt in the winter of 1994 / 1995 and officially opened it readiness for the railway's centenary.
Another example is visible in the tunnel under George Street, Railway Square, as part of the spur which leads from the connection between Redfern and the Darling Harbour goods station.
Hikers commonly choose to climb Dix from the south by taking the Elk Lake Trail from the similarly named lake toward Hunters Pass, where a spur leads up to Dix.
Lanty Scar provides the obvious line of ascent from Rydal, while the spur rising over Todd Crag leads up from Clappersgate.

spur and two
Nora Titone, in her book My Thoughts Be Bloody, recounts how the shame and ambition of Junius Brutus Booth's two illegitimate actor sons, Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, would eventually spur them to strive, as rivals, for achievement and acclaim — Edwin, a Unionist, and John Wilkes, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.
In 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was founded to act as Los Alamos ' " competitor ", with the hope that two laboratories for the design of nuclear weapons would spur innovation.
There are two common types of spur dykes, permeable and impermeable, depending on the materials used to construct them.
Magallan ( 1 species ) was characterised by having winged fruit and Tropaeastrum ( 2 species ) by having no spur while Tropaeolum ( 86 species ) was diagnosed only by the absence of the characteristics of the other two genera.
The name Kew is a combination of two words: the Old French kai ( landing place ; ' quay ' derives from this ) and Old English hoh ( spur of land ).
The interchange of these two interstates will spur commercial growth at exit 275.
Also provided in the original contract were four 5, 000-foot runways, two asphalt and two concrete, plus a spur of the Georgia and Florida Railroad.
This spur links the two main lines of the railroad in southeastern Massachusetts ; the easternmost heads to Cape Cod via the line used by the MBTA, and the westernmost proceeds to split in Taunton, sending two lines towards Fall River and New Bedford, respectively.
The western spur was added in the 1970s, with its two spurs re-connecting in the western side of the town
* Landsdown Trail, a spur line constructed for the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1881 that is now a graded rail trail starting about two miles ( 3 km ) south of Clinton on Landsdown Road that enters Clinton town center near the lumber yard.
However, it is expected that the I-140 bypass and the proposed two bypass interchanges will be completed in 2015-16, and the two large planned unit developments will spur additional growth within the Town.
By 1880 two railroad lines passed through the community, helping to spur economic and population growth.
The flowers have five free stamens with short filaments that are oppressed against the ovary, only the lower two stamens have nectary spurs that are inserted on the lowest petal into the spur or a pouch.
Also, a spur of rock, the summit of which was level with the city's uppermost tier, jutted out from the hill in an easterly direction, dividing all but the first level into two parts.
State Highway Route 18N lasted only two years after the 1927 renumbering, being designed as part of State Highway Route S-1 and State Highway Route 1 and State Highway Route S-1-A, which was designated along current Route 67 as a spur of Route S-1.
Namur came to prominence during the early Middle Ages when the Merovingians built a castle or citadel on the rocky spur overlooking the town at the confluence of the two rivers.
NBC's corporate parent, Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ), used the show to spur sales of RCA-manufactured color television sets ( RCA was also the primary sponsor of the series during its first two seasons ).
A spur-gear differential has two equal-sized spur gears, one for each half-shaft, with a space between them.
Furthermore, the pinions pairs are displaced axially, such that they mesh only for the part of their length between the two spur gears, and rotate in opposite directions.
" There are two major forms of structural-change theory ; W. Lewis ' two-sector surplus model, which views agrarian societies as consisting of large amounts of surplus labor which can be utilized to spur the development of an urbanized industrial sector, and Hollis Chenery's patterns of development approach, which holds that different countries become wealthy via different trajectories.
Eventually, U. S. Route 9 and Route 4 were moved to a new alignment between Freehold and Cheesequake, and the former alignment between these two points became Route 4A, a spur of Route 4.

spur and platforms
The station is built on the junction of two lines: the original station platforms lying on the Sydenham route, and the later platforms on the southern spur to Norwood Junction and Beckenham Junction.
On 1 December 1872 platforms were opened on the City branch and on the north-to-east spur ( called the Cambria Road platforms and spur after nearby Cambria Road ).
Currently the spur operates Mondays through Saturdays from 6 am to 9 pm, running two-car trains on shortened platforms.
Further changes were made in 1693, when the spur was heightened with a wall-walk, and the north tower was reduced to provide three gun platforms overlooking the Forth.
The new railroad built four stations in Richfield, with platforms along the Nicollet Avenue corridor – on the Bachman's farmstead spur at 62nd, Goodspeed's farmstead at 66th, Irwin's farmstead on 72nd and Wilson's farmstead on the southwest corner of 78th.
Thus the station is consist of two separated blocks: main building with bi-level platforms at the crossing point and detached platforms on the spur.
Future plans have been outlined to relocate the platforms at Cogan railway station to the other side of the Penarth spur junction so that passengers for Barry could change at Cogan instead of having to go all the way out to Grangetown.
Dingle Road Halt and Penarth station remain open but the two platforms at Cogan were closed when the line was reduced to a single track spur.

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