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...being accomplished. While much remains to be done, everything is essentially ready. For the past two years, thousands of workers have been blasting, digging and building heartily. The merriest have been 5,000 teenagers, sweating ten hours a day just a few weeks ago, leveling the ski-jump ramp, laying carpet in the athletes' quarters, working literally for a song at the end of the shift...
...renowned scholar at San Jose State but obsessive enough in side jobs (pumping gas, selling children's shoes, tending a chicken farm) so that Ueberroth's friends predicted his eventual success (in aviation, travel, hotels) and ultimate wealth. His own itinerary: from ramp agent for nonscheduled airlines to office worker to office manager to 22-year-old vice president to failure out on his own to spectacular success, heading First Travel Corp., second only to American Express among U.S. travel giants. Ueberroth's method, besides having been bred for problem solving, might be described as a kind of enlightened stinginess...
Through the great bronze doors that tell the story of Columbus, appeared the President-elect leaning on the arm of his son James. From the door to the platform had been built a special ramp, carpeted in maroon. Down this he shuffled slowly while the crowd cheered and the Marine Band played "Hail to the Chief...
...last week, Donald Spilky, 17, and four other students from Yeshiva University High School in Manhattan headed home by automobile to Queens on the Cross Bronx Expressway. A gunman, or gunmen, followed in a car, sped ahead of them on the expressway, and parked in waiting at an exit ramp. As the students neared the Whitestone Bridge, a volley from a high-powered automatic or semiautomatic M-16-type rifle rang out. One shot missed the students and killed Lucille Rivera, 37, a Queens mother of two who was a front-seat passenger in the vehicle next to theirs...
...School student charged that the University had overlooked a federal law requiring that newly refurbished facilities be made accessible to the handicapped. The University altered its plans to include 30 permanent seats and 65 temporary seats for the disabled, as well as reserved parking spaces and a wheelchair ramp. Contractors started work in March on the alterations, which will cost about...