Word: cablese
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Goff died in 1982 at 78. The design was finished by his disciple Bart Prince, to whom the urban fabric of Los Angeles owes some gratitude: the green bulk that rises beside the La Brea Tar Pits has been toned down from Goff's original sketches. It no longer flaunts...
Completed in 1903, the Williamsburg Bridge over New York City's East River has long served as a major traffic artery between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, with more than 240,000 commuters crossing the 1 1/2-mile steel span every day in cars, buses and subway trains. But the bridge is...
Many Tampa Bay residents feel a surge of civic pride as they drive across the new $244 million, 4.1-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the centerpiece of a 13- mile causeway connecting the tip of St. Petersburg's peninsula to the mainland. The span replaces a pair of cantilevered bridges, built...
U.S. aircraft builders are moving in the same direction as Airbus, but more cautiously. The new Boeing 757 and 767 models have computer-controlled engines, though the wing and tail surfaces are still linked to the cockpit by hydraulics. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11, the replacement for the DC-10...
In the final days before this week's Iowa caucuses, Massachusetts Democrat Michael Dukakis wanted to make a televised, in-depth appeal to the state's elderly voters. Since the message could not be targeted through the national networks, and there was no statewide network, the candidate simply assembled his...