Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attend Emperor Hirohito's funeral in February, a top aide alerted him to a problem that would once have been considered unworthy of presidential attention. Since Japanese furniture makers are eager for tropical hardwoods, officials in western Brazil hoped that Tokyo would finance the paving of a 500-mile road that would link the Amazon to a Peruvian highway, allowing lumberers to truck their timber directly to Pacific ports. But the plan, Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gates cautioned the President, would subject the western Amazon to more of the slash-and-burn land clearing that has already devastated much...
...forming the nucleus of a new 92-acre chunk of land. And -- hallelujah! -- the river, which most New Yorkers rarely glimpse, has been given back to the people, as Battery Park City embraces the wide and wonderful Hudson. The shore has been beribboned by a sculpture-studded esplanade, a mile-long stroll leading to the South Cove. There, grasses and boulders are untamed, as the riverbank might have been when Indians apprehensively watched approaching sails. Says Sally-Jane Heit, an actress-writer who was a 1982 "pioneer" in the first apartment tower: "It's a fantasy world, a sculpted cutout...
Damage estimates climbed over $4 billion throughout the 75-mile-long region, officials declared the ornate 78-year-old Oakland City Hall unusable, and 26 buildings were closed indefinitely at Stanford University near Palo Alto, 35 miles south of San Francisco...
Bush walked over chunks of concrete beside the 12-mile crumpled stretch of Interstate 880 in Oakland where scores of people were feared entombed and talked with rescue workers. He had said he hoped to offer encouragement...
...eleven-car train starts in Montreal and hooks up in Sudbury with another train from Toronto before setting out toward the west, along a 2,800-mile route. It plows across the vast prairies of Saskatchewan, where wheat and canola fields stretch from horizon to horizon. Then it is on to the Rockies, along ledges that would make an aerialist faint. It presses near the old Calamity Curve, through the Jaws of Death Gorge and, lest passengers have failed to get the message, into the Devil's Caldron...