Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tuesday afternoon I talk my way past the guard in front of the Bruin's main offices at 150 Causeway Street (next door to the Garden, and the only way anybody could get into the building before the doors would open at 6:30) and walk up the urine-stained loading platform and into the Garden. It's empty except for the union crews helping the Stones road crew set up the stage, and the Garden's assortment of janitorial personnel. The noises are functional, moving equipment, the distant sounds of machinery, the shouted questions of the cleaning women...
...Party to himself, so much so that Democrats fear that his nomination would lead to a fourth-party revolt by the left, thus throwing the election to the Republicans. Warns Eugene McCarthy of a potential Jackson nomination: "I might have to leave the beach [Miami] and go across the causeway to the mainland." By the same token, his views on busing and Vietnamization, among others, are close enough to Nixon's that the G.O.P. worries that he would poach on the President's constituency. Jackson agrees: "For every vote we would lose on the left we would effectively...
...lawyers, duly went to work for a coalition including the Sierra Club and the Citizens Committee for the Hudson Valley. In a federal district court, Sive argued that drawings prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers depicted a large dike, extending 1,000 feet into the river, and a causeway. He then cited an 1899 federal law that forbids building dikes and causeways "over or in" navigable waterways unless Congress first authorizes the project and the Secretary of Transportation approves. No such approval for the New York road had been granted...