Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this street, ya know." The heavyset woman hosing down her trash cans refers to the onrushing traffic to and from the Coast Guard station, where the police, the politicians, the FBI and the press have their separate clusters and where bodies are being brought by boat to the cement pier...
...taken the American Eagle bus from Boston's sparkling new South Station Terminal to crumbling downtown New Bedford understands the gap that exists in Massachusetts. Standing on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Boston during rush hour, life whips by as throngs of commuters cross paths with jack hammers and cement truck rebuilding Boston...
...comes of Whitewater, at least maybe, at long merciful last, you in the media will finally stop hanging -gate on the end of everything from jaywalking to capital murder (Billygate, contra-gate, Irangate, travelgate, skategate, ad nauseam). First, though, we have to find a cute replacement that you can cement yourselves to for the next half-century or so. Let's see: "Whitebilly" (nah)..."travelwater" (ugh). I despair. ERIC POOLE Londonderry, New Hampshire Via E-mail
...funnel 75,000 cars each day into and out of the city; today, over 200,000 cars a day crawl along the outdated expressway. Back below on street level, the honking of horns and the colorful shouts of angry drivers harmonize with the rumble and roar of the bulldozers, cement mixers and dump trucks beginning the construction of the proposed direct underground rail link between North and South Station...
Firms such as Boise Cascade, United Brands, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Lone Star (a big cement company), as well as Coke, either opposed Helms-Burton quietly or ducked the issue. Observes Robert Muse, an international lawyer who represents Amstar, an American sugar company with $81 million in property claims in Cuba: "Helms-Burton does not have a lot of support among big American companies because it threatens to complicate their re-entry into Cuba as well as U.S.-Cuba relations after Castro...