Word: cranes
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...reduce the flow of vehicles. In Virginia traffic supervisors use remote TV cameras installed along stretches of I-66 and I-395 to spot breakdowns, to which they immediately dispatch tow trucks that dispense free gasoline if a motorist needs it. Chicago's highway authority operates a huge mobile crane, dubbed Mad Max, that can lift up to 60 tons, and has moved obstacles ranging from semitrailers to a 500-lb. runaway...
When I saw Ruml again, two years later, the "Brezhnev winter" had descended on Prague. Ruml, along with 3,000 other journalists, had lost his job and been expelled from the Communist Party. His new career: working as a crane operator with a road gang. Ruml's wife Jirina Hrabkova had been removed as the moderator of a popular radio program, and was selling sausages at the Prague Zoo. Worst of all, their two sons Jan, 17, and Jakob, 15, were hounded out of high school and denied a university education...
...Bush could choose based simply on his own likes, he would tap his friend the Waspy and witty Wyoming Senator. Extremely popular and partisan, he would be an effective attack dog. Though ardently conservative, his pro-choice abortion stance would ruffle the right. He looks like Ichabod Crane, and his tart tongue could get him in trouble. Worse, his state has only three electoral votes...
...relatives and friends waited anxiously, rescuers with a crane, tractors and bare hands toiled through Thursday night, using dogs and sensitive microphones to locate buried survivors. By the weekend it appeared that about 25 people had been in the store at the time of the cave-in. The toll, including passersby: 14 dead, 47 injured...
Ready for a change from the urban music scene? Check out the Jazz Ball at Crane's Castle in Ipswich, Ma. tonight. Kick back and listen to the Ritz play on the expansive lawn of plumbing magnate Thomas Crane's beachfront estate on the North Shore. Tickets are $20 and $25 for reserved seating. Call 358-7774 for more details...