Word: grid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soaked pedestrians, bicyclists and roller skaters on the streets of New York City. They sloshed to work in the morning through ankle-deep puddles and returned home that evening in a tropical downpour. Cars and school buses clogged the streets. At one point, police in Manhattan narrowly averted a "grid lock," the ultimate traffic jam, in which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike, and the élan that New Yorkers had shown...
...galleries that allow the museum to display the full riches of its 19th century collection. Built with a $2.5 million gift from the late André Meyer, an investment banker and longtime trustee, the galleries supply more than half an acre of floor space, topped by a vast glass-gridded ceiling that extends, free of supports, over the whole area. The galleries are part of the new southern wing, designed by Kevin Roche/John Dinkeloo, and the huge ceiling provides something almost unique in recent museum constructionnatural light. Special glass on the roof above filters out the ultraviolet light...
...less money on settlements and more on 11 the country's economically depressed agriculture. Other Israelis criticize the settlement policy as a de facto annexation of the occupied territories. The West Bank, argues Meir Merhav, economics editor of the Jerusalem Post, "is to be carved up by a grid of roads, settlements and strongholds into a score of little Bantustans so that [the Palestinians] shall never coalesce again into a contiguous area that can support autonomous, let alone independent, existence...