Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Photographs of Kobe lead one to suspect that steel rebar and concrete reinforcements are missing from the expressway and other public projects. The Japanese should turn their formidable energy to a great national purpose: survival of a superquake. The government must oversee the inspection and retrofit of all structures in the Tokyo-Yokohama metroplex. Time is short...
...estimated 75 people, injuring hundreds and trapping hundreds more in collapsed buildings. The quake, which measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and was followed by at least 17 aftershocks, hardest in the major port city of Kobe, where fires burned out of control, trains derailed and a major elevated expressway toppled, spilling about 50 vehicles onto the street below. The shaking, which began at 3:46 p.m. EST (5:46 a.m. in Japan) and lasted about 20 seconds, was also felt strongly 22 miles away in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city. Nearly 200 people were believed buried in rubble...
There's a bumper sticker you see occasionally when you're driving down the Long Island Expressway, and it captures perfectly the sentiment of many a New York hockey...
While ruminating on the spiritual ramifications of interviewing Kathy Ireland, Sean almost got us killed when he missed a turn and tried to get to an expressway on-ramp from the left lane of a four-lane road, nearly taking us through the sign on the shoulder. That set us talking about Clinton's new health plan...
...that's left is to imagine how the tunnel will become part of everyday Boston life. In traffic reports, we'll hear about the jam on the Expressway, all the way from Neponset to Williams. Nicknames will start--Bob Ryan from the Globe wants to call it "The Thumper...