Word: rusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign as Roxbury and Southie. However, most Bostonians know and abhor the constant reality that driving anywhere in the city means--fighting insufferable traffic, endless construction and inevitable road rage. According to many of these frustrated drivers, the root of the chaos is the Central Artery, an elevated, rust-coated hunk of steel that carries crawling traffic north to south through the middle of Boston...
...surely expanded it hateward as well. Wallace was one of the great political arsonists; no material in America was more flammable than race. He took his magnificent sneer and slurring menace up North to Rust Belt, hard-hat territory and, as if in a century-delayed retaliation for Sherman's march, he scorched the earth with a message of racial contempt and populist economic grievance. In the 1968 election, he took 13% of the popular vote and won five states...
...real capitalism, which is not solely about mergers and acquisitions but about production as well. And the simple fact is that Russia does not produce. The old rust belt--defense-oriented enterprises employing tens of thousands each--are still lurching along, turning out things so costly and so shoddy that no one wants to buy them. In Soviet times, workers joked that they pretended to work and the state pretended to pay them. Now the line could be that the workers pretend to make things and the factories pretend to sell them. The plants can't pay their taxes...
...brake fluid contained 7.5% water. Since water is not normally present in the system, Judge Stephan has requested an expert report on how it got there and whether it could have caused the brakes to malfunction. Experts consulted by TIME say this amount of water could cause corrosion and rust that might impair or even disable the brakes...
Nicoloro said the rust doesn't pose any healththreat, but some precautions should be taken. "Iwould discourage people from doing their laundry,"he said