During his tenure the city of 5,000 was characterized by highway strip development.

The highway strips can be converted from motorways to airbases typically within 24 to 48 hours.

"Let us hope that the merits and charm of the highway strip are not so obscure but they will be accepted by a wider public."

Post-modernists celebrated popular taste typified by the highway strip.

It was a small family-owned business that had steadfastly stayed with a downtown location when others were moving to highway strip malls.

"It reinvests in existing places and it will be a model for redeveloping other obsolete highway strips."

As in many other small cities, commercial life has bled from downtown onto the highway strip malls and supercenter retailers along the Interstate.

The area with the best service coverage is the highway strip along Musgrave Street in North Rockhampton.

THE highway strip along Route 7 in Norwalk has never been a source of prime-time dining.

The small, newly minted office building is poised where the brick-lined streets, bike shops and diners of Burlington end and the highway strip begins.

The plane was forced to land on a highway strip near the city of Neiva and then a member of the Colombian Congress was kidnapped.

The Transplan proposal of the state's Department of Transportation would control development somewhat better, but chiefly along the highway strip where growth patterns are already well advanced.

True, the city has an urban center, but even a casino smack in the middle of it has not brought back the life that fled downtown for highway strip malls.

It is sited across a river from the Kang Da Ri Highway strip, and recent satellite photos appear to show a bridge connecting the two under construction.

At its heart, the corridor plan calls for reinventing the highway strip, now a dying retail hub, into a patchwork of light industrial, office and retail uses as well as housing.

On the periphery of the town is today: the new mall and the occasional homeless beggar and the traffic without end along the endless highway strip of fast-food restaurants and convenience stores.

Midori inhabits a large, gymlike space in a highway strip mall, with about 110 seats - all of them full on a recent Saturday night, with a waiting line that snaked into the lobby.

A highway strip or road runway is a section of a highway or motorway that is specially built to allow landing of (mostly) military aircraft and to serve as a military airbase.

This was particularly true, they say, for the commercial highway strips and shopping centers that sprang up in the postwar years to service a nation suddenly having a torrid love affair with the automobile and suburban living.

Like so many downtowns abandoned for highway strips, the Roxy (the mayor pointed it out to the president as a place that might make a great cultural center with some kind of grant or loan), is still boarded.

In the Cold War highway strips were systematically built on both sides of the Iron Curtain, mostly in the two Germanys, but also in Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus at least two highway strips were built in the Greek part of Cyprus, easily recognisable by a runway center line and markings for the touch down zone.

The joke soon wears thin, however, particularly since it seems to have dictated a theme for this six-month-old restaurant in a faceless new luxury hotel on a commercial highway strip on the western edge of Essex County.

Real estate agents commonly refer to any property along the Nepean Highway strip from the Frankston Waterfront in the north, to Humphries Road in the South, as being on Olivers Hill.