Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Specific changes include the installation ofenvironmentally safe pipe lines, the replacementor elimination of many existing airfield pipelinesand the upgrading of the sub-pavement hydrantaircraft refueling system...
...Houston, the fourth-largest U.S. city, led the top 50 cities with the largest drop in crime rates during 1992, Lanier's first year in office. Since then, the rate has continued to fall. In addition to making the streets safer, Lanier has made them cleaner, adding new pavement, sidewalks and streetlights to some of Houston's worst parks and neighborhoods...
...void. What keeps it from being just another nauseating exercise in shock rock is the intelligence and creative force behind its dire sound. On March of the Pigs, for example, layers of shifting static are suddenly broken by a lyrical piano riff that blooms like a flower through cracked pavement before the wall of noise crushes it again...
...Coens create highly original takes on the macabre theme of human pavement art but cannot connect them into anything meaningful or entertaining. CEO Waring Hudsucker takes a running start from the end of the long boardroom table to dive through the glass en route to a majestic conclusion. The next executive to try the same meets with plexiglass. Even the closing scenes when Barnes faces death from the 44th floor has its great moments. These are innovative takes on the physical possibilities of office tower suicides, but the Coens set a tone early on they cannot keep...
...rule last week. Early Monday morning thousands of Zulus, carrying spears, axes, clubs, pistols and a few AK-47 rifles, surged into Johannesburg's main business district. At Shell House, the 21-story office building housing A.N.C. headquarters, security men fired a fusillade at the demonstrators, turning the pavement into a jumble of bleeding bodies and hawkers' overturned stands. A few blocks away, rooftop snipers opened fire, killing several more marchers and sending thousands of demonstrators and office workers fleeing in panic. When the casualties were counted, 53 people were dead and more than 400 injured...