Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many suburbs, the beltway serves as Main Street, lined with office buildings, shopping complexes and Cineplexes that attract more and more home buyers. The Washington Beltway is a notoriously clogged 64-mile loop that carried an estimated 466,000 vehicles a day in 1976 and now handles 735,000. The average speed for Beltway commuters driving across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge from Virginia suburbs to Maryland communities is currently 23 m.p.h., down from 47 m.p.h...
Traveling at 350 m.p.h., three MB-339A jets of Italy's ten-member Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) aerobatic team slammed together in a flash of smoke and fire 200 ft. above Ramstein's main runway. One brightly painted red- white-and-green aircraft plummeted to the tarmac, and another crashed in a nearby woods well away from the audience of some 300,000. The third burning jet cartwheeled straight into the middle of an area of concession stands and picnickers alongside the runway, spewing fire and airplane parts over tents, cars, barbecue grills -- and people...
Nutarelli arrived too low and perhaps a split second early. On some videotapes, it appeared that his landing gear was extended, and photographs shortly before the crash clearly show the left main gear of his aircraft fully extended. Whatever the cause, he struck at least one of the other planes...
...span, which opened last year, employs a graceful monopole design in which supporting cables radiate from two central towers. The roadway has four extra-wide lanes and ten-foot shoulders to enable drivers with car trouble to pull out of traffic. Thick concrete bumpers protect the bridge's main piers against maritime collisions...
...Soviet news agency TASS said Mohmand's main assignments are participating in experiments on the nauseating effects of weightlessness and photographic surveys of his native land. But the images broadcast to the folks back in Kabul suggested that Mohmand was given a larger mission: helping Moscow win friends in Afghanistan as the Soviets withdraw their troops from that divided country...