Citing the choice by Webster's New World College Dictionary of "distracted driving" as its word of the year, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has announced an initiative to eliminate the practice in 2010. According to LaHood, the phrase's "rapid intrusion into our national vocabulary shows what an epidemic distracted driving has become."
No word on what the government intends to do about "unfriending."
No word on what the government intends to do about "unfriending."
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