Word: highway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot had barely begun. Just after midnight, as Manila slept, a contingent of 200 Philippine marines and Scout Rangers stationed themselves above a strategic highway leading to Fort Bonifacio, headquarters of the Philippine army, and suburban Villamor Air Base. Accompanied by two armored personnel carriers, the soldiers were armed with automatic rifles and supplied with mortars. On their left sleeves they bore a strange white patch with the letters RAM-SFP. The first three initials identified the men as members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, an organization of Young Turks that was thought to have been disbanded after...
...same time, technology is breaking down the links that join networks to their affiliates, and is blurring the lines that distinguish big stations from small ones, and network affiliates from the country's 400 independent stations. The main culprit: satellites. By providing a relatively inexpensive electronic highway over which video signals can be transmitted, satellites have created a new industry of program suppliers that can offer local stations a broad variety of material once available only from the networks...
...cedar split-level that cost them $110,000 less than their California home. Even if Kelly's income has dipped 20%, his commute is mercifully brief. At the wheel, he says, he no longer starts at the sound of a backfire for fear it might be a highway shooting. "We were tired of being in the fast lane," says Mary Cutlip, 36. "We wanted a more peaceable, low-key way of life. We wanted our kids to grow up at a slower pace...
...devastated Marina district in San Francisco, parts of coastal communities such as Marina Del Rey, Venice and Long Beach are built on sandy soil and landfill that could liquefy during a temblor, amplifying its destructive impact. State transportation officials last week handed the city council a list of 48 highway bridges and overpasses that need reinforcement to withstand a powerful quake. Cost: $32 million. Los Angeles' city engineer Robert Horii informed the city council that $100 million worth of shoring up may be required on the city's bridges and viaducts. Said Horii: "I didn't believe the urgency...
Patrick Wallace, a worker in a local paper plant, shinnied up a tree to reach the fallen highway. He saw two women dead in a flattened auto. Then he heard "one little whimper" from the backseat. Pinned beneath a slab of concrete and the body of his mother was Julio Berumen, 6. His less seriously injured sister, Cathy, 8, also lay there. For nearly an hour, Wallace struggled to free the boy. Once he felt movement. "But it turned out it was just the clothing sliding from his body...