Word: lanes
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After more than a decade of political debate, court battles and environmental disputes, New York officials last week finally gave up on Westway, the $2.3 billion, six-lane extravaganza proposed to replace a decayed section of Manhattan's West Side Highway. The project was to have been built through 169 acres of landfill in the Hudson River, with real estate development and a park on top. It had the support of New York's major politicians, builders and newspapers. But a number of vocal and tenacious critics called the project environmentally unsound and a waste of money. Westway's major...
...lane alley, complete with snack bar, is due to open next month at a cost of $375,000 to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and $75,000 to Duchesne. California Democrat George Miller, chairman of the House Interior Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, is enraged by the expenditure. "We charge them to build a dam, we get a bowling alley instead," he said last week. The bureau has proposed that Utah residents who will be served by CUP whenever the project is completed pay back about 75% of the federal cost for the bowling alley through water charges...
After the indictment, DeLorean, a former General Motors executive who was once in the auto industry's fast lane, brushed off questions from reporters | outside his Manhattan apartment with a brusque "Read the book. It's all in the book." He was referring to DeLorean (Zondervan; $17.95), his new autobiography. In it, he denies the charges raised in Detroit. Writes DeLorean: "When all the documents and facts are presented, I expect to be fully vindicated...
...when the final gun sounded 82 minutes after Lane Kenworthy's direct kick had eluded UConn goalie Andy Pantason, the 10th-ranked Huskies (now 6-0-3) had turned a 1-0 deficit into a 5-1 victory...
When a green Buick passed by in the left lane doing a brisk 70 m.p.h., Woullard radioed up to his partner, who was waiting a quarter-mile up the road. The green Buick got nailed...