Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese companies say they have the technology to build extensive subterranean projects without disturbing the people aboveground. The Tokyo Electric company already has a high-voltage power station right below a Buddhist temple. Engineers are confident that they can create enormous underground structures with little danger of cave-ins. They point to such construction breakthroughs as the 33.5-mile-long Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater corridor, which connects Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north...
...three-member committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is currently investigating possible academic uses for the Quincy Square site formerly occupied by the Gulf station...
Despite opposition from faculty and community leaders, the University is moving closer to its goal of constructing a five-story "limited service" hotel on the Quincy Square site formerly occupied by the Gulf station...
...debate which flared up this fall around the University's proposal for building a hotel at the old Gulf station site highlighted the pressing need for increased library space and faculty offices, and professors say they will continue to press the University to allocate its resources more toward academic needs than profit-making ventures...
Purdy set his station wagon afire with a gasoline-filled beer bottle. Then the man described in a 1987 police report as suffering from "mild mental retardation" walked toward the school yard. At least 300 pupils, mostly kindergartners through third-graders, were enjoying their lunchtime recess. Impassively, Purdy squeezed the trigger of his rifle, then reloaded, raking the yard with at least 106 bullets. As children screamed in pain and fear, Purdy placed a 9-mm pistol to his head and killed himself. When the four- minute assault was over, five children, ages 6 to 9, were dead. One teacher...