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...that's just the start. Over the past year, the city has hounded dog owners to buy pet licenses, dispatched investigators to public garages in search of registration-sticker scofflaws and agreed to lease its Chicago Skyway toll road to a private company for $1.83 billion over 99 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creative Thinking In Chicago | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...miss the real threat. When 100 Florida law-enforcement officials, utility executives and emergency-response officials met in Tallahassee last week, it wasn't a nuclear or biological threat that was most on their mind. It was a conventional attack on the Port of Miami, on the Sunshine Skyway that spans Tampa Bay, or on that most American of symbols, Walt Disney World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clear And Present Danger | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...early 1980s, the museums proposed building a skyway to connect the Fogg and the then-new Sackler museums. The community opposed the bridge, fearing it would be an eyesore, and it was never built...

Author: By Jonathan F. Taylor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On the Edge | 1/21/2000 | See Source »

...every weekday at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. to walk across red carpet into a large fountain in the midst of the grand lobby. Those mallards are some of the most photographed paddlers in existence. The Peabody is also well known for its plethora of restaurants, gorgeous rooms and Skyway dance parties. It's just the place to convince a poor young law student and his wife that Memphis is the place...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Firm Fan's Guide to Understanding Memphis, Tenn. | 7/2/1993 | See Source »

From the streamlined funk of Tomorrow's Girls to the bouncy saunter of Countermoon, the songs find a groove and gather momentum as breezy vocals and serpentine horn charts glide over a swinging rhythm section. Trans-Island Skyway builds from a muttering bass line and ice-cool finger snaps to an exhilarating joyride that derives part of its thrill from the danger lurking around the next bend. When Fagen sings, "Strap in tight cause it's a long sweet ride," it's like speeding in a convertible with the top down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arcane Odyssey | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

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