Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alewife Development Project will include the transformation of half a dozen private ways into public streets with new pavement, shrubbery, and public utilities in order to attract manufacturing and research and development firms to the area...
...however, the 55 m.p.h. speed limit appears headed for a stretch of rough pavement. Bills to raise or circumvent the speed limit are under consideration in more than a score of state legislatures, particularly in the West, where ornery "sagebrush rebellion" sentiment fuels anger at all kinds of federal impositions. In some states, highway patrolmen are looking the other way as speeders pass. In others, such as Texas and California, fast drivers greatly outnumber police available to stop them. Last week in Nevada, a state consisting almost entirely of wide open spaces, the Governor signed a bill that makes speeders...
Highways. In 1956 Congress launched what President Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed to be "the greatest public works program in history": the interstate highway system. Now in its silver anniversary year, the 42,500-mi. network is only 94% finished, but 8,000 miles of pavement are so badly worn that they must be rebuilt. Though the U.S. Government has picked up 90% of the $79 billion tab for interstate construction so far, it has given the states almost no money for maintenance and state legislatures have been slow to provide funds to keep up the highways. To make matters worse, Congress...
...city executes its maintenance work with a precision similar to that of the Dallas Cowboys on a pass pattern. Dallas keeps a computerized inventory of all street surfaces, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and stop lights. Water-main breaks and cracks in the pavement are rigorously recorded, as are the costs of repairing them. The city, for example, annually cleans out 26% of its sewers, and trouble-prone stretches of underground pipe are inspected by subterranean television cameras...
...stayed on his feet to capture a series of haunting images that by day's end were burned into the national memory: the President waving, then being jackknifed into his limousine by a Secret Service agent; Press Secretary James Brady and a Secret Service agent falling to the pavement wounded. Brown swung his camera around in the direction of the assailant, by then smothered under a swarm of armed Secret Service men and Washington, B.C., police. "Then I saw them kick a gun away, and I followed it to where it stopped near Brady's head," says Brown...