Word: overpassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every bridge and overpass along the route, at every entrance and exit ramp, in rest areas and upon medians people were standing. Among the mourners were his players, present and past, including Joe Namath, Richard Todd, Lee Roy Jordan, John David Crow; and his coaching colleagues, like Bud Wilkinson, Darrell Royal, Eddie Robinson, Woody Hayes. "When I heard, it was like March 31, 1931," said Hayes, 69, the historian. "I was on the practice field. Someone came over to me and said, 'Rockne is dead.' Rockne was the great coach of his era; this man is the great...
...been slit and wallet emptied. There is a sleek V-planed speedboat, stripped of galleys and bunks and loaded with a half-ton of marijuana, skimming across the waters of Biscayne Bay. Here are a handful of ragged Cuban refugees, living in a tent pitched beneath a highway overpass...
...Pittsburgh under the leadership of Samuel Gompers, a cigarmaker from London, to form the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. Ahead lay many battles against obstinate employers as unions fought for recognition: the Homestead and Pullman strikes in the 1890s, the bloody 1937 Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn, Mich., when Walter and Victor Reuther were attempting to organize auto workers. But now, as the U.S. labor movement enters its second century, it faces equally serious problems: eroding membership and fading public support...
...beginning to realize that its annual in-lieu-of-tax payment to the city could be raised to help keep Cambridge afloat in the new are of Massachusetts fiscal austerity. Last month, for example, the University settled a decade-old dispute with city officials about the Cambridge St. overpass near the Science Center by paying about $150,000 to cover repair costs incurred by the city...
...victims. The body was identified as that of Curtis Walker, 13, who had been missing since Feb. 19, when he failed to return home after looking for after-school work. Officials speculate that Walker's body may have been dropped into the river upstream from an overpass. Cause of death: asphyxiation...