Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price will preclude impulse buying? Gimmicks like this work only if they offer an easier alternative to the status quo. There is a special brand of arrogance in Harvard's assumption that, to every student, the "inconvenience" of spending $5.00 is negligible compared with the inconvenience of pavement pounding in search of classes. If binding the booklets cheaply and distributing them free is prohibitively expensive, the College should simply have them available through Lamont and House Libraries...
...persuade army troops to break ranks by dividing along sectarian lines. Such a development was not unexpected. Earlier hi the summer, a prominent Arab journalist in Beirut had predicted: "If the army has to fight the Shi'ites, it will break apart like a watermelon dropped on the pavement." Not only did the Lebanese army perform creditably last week, but, more important, it did not split apart. For the first time in eight years, the Lebanese government had an army that it could count upon...
Estimates as to how much the bid rigging costs the public vary widely. Representatives of at least one trade group, the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), have met with Justice Department officials to voice concern that the scope of the investigation might end up crippling the nation's road-building industry. Says NAPA President John Gray: "We felt this was overkill." But Joseph Welsch, inspector general of the U.S. Transportation Department, says a reliable rule of thumb is that "rigged bids cost taxpayers about 15% more than unrigged bids," a margin of greed that could add up to hundreds...
...that moment, a shot rang out, then two more. The reporters rushed to the windows in the plane's first-class compartment and saw Aquino lying face down on the pavement, a gaping hole in the back of his head. The khaki-clad guards who had taken him from the plane were nowhere to be seen, and the area was swarming with blue-uniformed AVSECOM troops. Next to a van, two of the troopers looked on as a third pumped at least eight bullets into the body of a man dressed in a blue Philippine Airlines maintenance worker...
...body of Aquino was lying face down on the pavement, blood spurting from a large wound in the back of his neck. Another body, dressed in a blue mechanic's uniform, lay face up a few feet away as a soldier pumped 16 rounds into his stomach at close range. Two other soldiers picked up the limp body of Aquino, loaded it into the van and sped away. Aquino was pronounced dead on arrival at Ft. Bonifacio Army Hospital...