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...moving passage, he describes the scene at a Wisconsin plant closing that marked the end for the Autoworkers local. Standing outside the plant, not knowing what to do, the members decide to scream. It was, said the papers later, a yell that could be heard in the Loop, 60 miles away. To Geoghegan, it was a scream Edvard Munch could have painted. One day that scream will be commemorated with a plaque, he writes, "and people will walk past it and remember. And they will think: This was the last scream they screamed before they left organized labor." If Geoghegan...
...fiscally prudent government would have acknowledged the emergency and waived the agency rules, says Abdulaziz Sultan al-Issa, chairman of the Gulf Bank. "But that would mean cutting people out of the moneymaking loop, and our rulers are scrupulous about allowing such windfalls. It is part of the elaborate way in which our loyalty is bought...
Daniel E. Geer, co-chair of Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods, called Scheme Z "a loop-de-loop, above-ground monstrosity." "Bury Scheme Z" graffitti appeared on signs in subway trains which advertised the jobs and cash flow created by the Central Artery. And Elizabeth Epstein of the city's Conservation in Commission said she had "good reason to believe that there are better alternatives...
...originally proposed by the state. CIP 5 is the preferred alternative. Dark gray lines indicate proposed construction. SCHEME Z CIP 5 Baseline Cost $430 million $840 million Completion Date 1998 15-17 months after Z Bridges 3 bridges, 275 ft. wd. 1 bridge, 168 ft. wide Piers 11 6 Loop Ramps Outer 105 high 75 ft narrower than...
...takes son Brad and teenage daughter Eleanor to Orioles baseball games, and they indulge his attraction to carnival rides. During a trip to Germany when he was deputy CIA director, Gates detoured to a local fairground, security detail in tow, and rode a roller coaster called the Triple Loop. A man of plain tastes and middlebrow origins, Gates likes to torment elitists at the CIA and the State Department, whom he derides as "guys with last names for first names." He tells corny jokes and Russian jokes. And he is relentlessly practical in a way that sometimes amuses his friends...