Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pulled a .22-cal. gun, shot a guard and released six other inmates from their cells. The seven fled to the roof, thence over an 18-ft.-high chain link fence. By Saturday, searchers had caught four fugitives, but Gilbert and two others remained free. Corrections Secretary O. Lane McCotter authorized pursuers to shoot to kill if necessary...
...once home to some 50,000 workers, may never be resettled. Nearby, 27 villages are still so heavily contaminated that workers have abandoned cleanup efforts. Signs warned against driving on road shoulders, which could stir up radioactive dust, and army trucks made up most of the traffic on two-lane roads that once were thoroughfares to markets...
Bumper- to- bumper traffic clogging America' s expressways has forced frustrated drivers to experience life in the slow lane...
There is the one about the drivers who sneak into the lane reserved for car pools by planting inflated dummies in the passenger seats. And the pregnant woman who successfully argued in court that she and her fetus were entitled to use the car-pool lane because they were separate persons. Then there are the days that live in legend -- like Oct. 29, 1986, when a single midafternoon accident on the San Diego Freeway spread gridlock along connecting freeways and surface streets from downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, trapping tens of thousands of motorists for eight full...
Extreme frustration can lead to violence. Four freeway shootings have been reported in the Los Angeles area in the past eleven months. On the Santa Ana Freeway, a speed demon angered by a car that did not move from the fast lane pulled up alongside the offending vehicle and fatally shot a passenger in the front seat...