Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threat against their lives or their properties. Advertising signs saying MENGELE-GUNZBURG dot the sides of roads in the vicinity of the town; the firm's slogan, MENGELE -- THE BETTER IDEA, is splashed across the side of a plant building, clearly visible to motorists passing on a nearby expressway...
...principal issues in the campaign will be transportation and the environment. The quick completion of repairs on the Southeast Expressway, which connects the South Shore with Boston, heads the list of area concerns. The presence of toxic PCBs in New Bedford Harbor and cuts in the Coast Guard budget have upset district residents and are major campaign issues...
...After finishing tryouts for the ice-hockey team last week, Donald Spilky, 17, and four other students from Yeshiva University High School in Manhattan headed home by automobile to Queens on the Cross Bronx Expressway. A gunman, or gunmen, followed in a car, sped ahead of them on the expressway, and parked in waiting at an exit ramp. As the students neared the Whitestone Bridge, a volley from a high-powered automatic or semiautomatic M-16-type rifle rang out. One shot missed the students and killed Lucille Rivera, 37, a Queens mother of two who was a front-seat...
...expressway shootout was the fourth attack in 3½ months on Yeshiva students and other Jews in the ethnically diverse north Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights. On June 7, four bullets were fired at Yeshiva's five-story brick administration building; two days later, someone fired six .223-cal. blasts at Jewish Memorial Hospital. Neither attack caused more than minor property damage; no one was hit. But two weeks after that four still unidentified people pumped 20 shots from a passing car into a neighborhood luncheonette known as a Yeshiva student hangout, wounding three of the 50 students inside...
...home office of International Press Service is clamoring for a "roser." It is, the Beirut bureau chief explains, "the radio equivalent of bang-bang, an on-scene report, the purpose of which is to give our listening audience a few thrills while they're driving home on the expressway." But the old pro has had it; his competitive edge is dull from too many wars, too many silly requests and perfunctory atta-boys on the wire. Besides, the Lebanese capital in the mid-'70s is the most dangerous place he has ever seen...