Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...further slowed progress. By morning the scene along Interstate 10 outside Pensacola was like something from a grade-B disaster film. Jarrell estimates 10,000 people were stranded on the highways, listening to ever more urgent broadcasts on their radios. Some drivers abandoned their cars and fled for high ground...
...that the city has some unique and potentially lethal features. First, they realized that its major bridges, like the Verrazano Narrows and the George Washington, were so high they would experience the advance winds of an approaching hurricane several hours before winds of the same velocity were felt at ground level. These critical escape routes would have to be closed well before ground-level highways...
...Sproul Plaza, many students were at first horrified, then angry at Cash, and finally resigned to doing nothing. "I personally think he's a psycho, but I'm not sure there's legal ground," said a student. Rajan Bhattacharyya, 19, a sophomore, says he knew Cash in junior high as a "normal bratty kid" and defended his legal right to remain in school: "I don't think this is the first time someone has left a crime victim at a scene or something like that. They can't just kick him out because they don't like him." Masoud Seberi...
...trying to gamble his way into some extra money. The 4-ft. Jordan wannabe challenged his 6-ft. neighbor to a pickup game played with a makeshift basketball hoop fashioned from a milk crate and plywood. "R. said, 'Put your 15 up,' and he threw 15[cents] on the ground," says Demetrius Tulloch, 20. "R. was always saying, 'Put your money up.'" And as always, Tulloch let the boy win his loose change. Just around the corner at the Wash Factory, R.'s eight-year-old buddy "E." was hanging around in hopes of earning some spending money. More soft...
...pirating discs in someone's basement than in downloading music from the Internet. Most major record labels use their websites as promotional vehicles, letting you play 30-second teasers but not download entire songs. For acts that haven't cracked the Top 40, however, the Web is becoming fertile ground. At the Intel New York Music Festival last month, the chipmaker simulcast more than 300 live performances from 20 Manhattan clubs on the festival's website (at www.intelfest.com in hopes of stirring interest in digital-music delivery. Missed it? No problem. You can simply download selected tracks...