Word: carli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to City Manager Robert W. Healy, White's ruling means the Athenaeum Group will probably have finished its 1530-car garage--the city's second largest--long before the lawsuits are decided "on the merits...
...first, I was skeptical. It was just another stall tactic for him not to give me a car. You see, every year my dad promises to give me a car. He still hasn't. So he's probably telling me to go to Europe so the car issue doesn't come up during Commencement...
...have been complaining that for one reason or another, Harvard's police-run escort service has refused them transportation. People have been told they can't use the service because they live too far away or because they use the service too often. Sometimes there haven't been enough cars; sometimes there haven't been enough drivers. Others have been told that if they want a ride, they have to wait outside--alone--until a car arrives...
...fourth-floor brick wall of a building erected a few years after the 1906 quake tore loose. "Bricks were falling, and dust was everywhere," said Charles Pinkstaff, who ran out of a nearby structure that also rumbled. "Then everything was quiet, except for water dripping somewhere. I saw a car smashed so flat I couldn't tell if anyone had been in it." When he got closer, he saw that the driver had been decapitated. The falling wall had smashed seven cars, killing at least five people. "I've seen people die, but nothing like this," said San Francisco fire...
This is not to minimize the dazzling feats that the networks and their affiliates were able to pull off. Howard Stringer, the president of CBS Broadcast Group, was parking his car at Candlestick Park when the earthquake hit, and he subsequently spent hours searching for a working telephone or open airport. "It's remarkable that television got satellite feeds out at all, given that things weren't working even at a lower level of technology," he says. San Francisco's two dailies, also without power, had trouble making their deadlines with abbreviated editions, and newspapers across the country relied heavily...