Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Savannah: Talmadge Memorial Bridge. The city's hopes of becoming a major port are pinned on modernizing the bridge to allow passage of bigger ships. Talmadge Memorial was struck by a cargo boom of the U.S.S. Callaghan during military exercises in July 1983, underscoring the need to raise the span from its current 136-ft. height to 175 ft. Price: $90 million. Federal share: $53 million...
...spanning the Savannah River. According to Georgia officials, the Port of Savannah has lost an estimated 1 million tons of shipping because modern container vessels cannot get under the existing bridge. "Something has to happen," says Robert Goethe, assistant director of the Georgia Ports Authority. "The ships are getting bigger, and the bridge is not getting taller...
...near Fermilab, and California has picked its spot, near Stockton. South Dakota has appropriated $900,000 to land the accelerator. Texas is promoting ten different sites for the tunnel and considering a $1 billion bond issue. Says Texas Governor Bill Clements of the SSC: "It could be bigger than NASA." Particle-physics fans are cropping up in the most unlikely places. In Malone, N.Y., a small town near the Canadian border, 800 people turned out to hear physicists lecture about the project...
...accepted the funds and will spare me! Spare me that is, provided I promise to use His money to buy myself and even bigger mansion, a larger jacuzzi, more servants, more limosines, and one of those nice polyester suits...
...decided we wanted to make the raft race a bigger and more spectacular event this year," said race committee co-chair Mike N. Druckman '87. "We just thought there was a potential to make it much better...