Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fond du Lac, a town of 40,000 curled along the shores of Lake Winnebago, lifts will boost the price tag on each new bus $15,000. Operating and maintenance expenses will tack on an additional $5,000 each year. City-council members worry about finding enough money to both continue the Handi-Van service and install lifts on the city's fleet of twelve buses, half of which are due to be replaced this year...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Kenneth Collura, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, Simon Tack...
...judges and parole boards. Whatever the sentence, it rarely means the felon will be locked up that long. A killer who strikes a bargain for a 20-year term can sometimes walk away in a little less than seven years. That is why a number of states also tack on additional years for the use of a firearm during a crime. Some states, like Illinois and Maryland, have created a penalty of life without parole. That means, says Chicago Judge Earl Strayhorn, "a person goes in alive and comes out dead...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Kenneth Collura, Kin Wah Lam, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, Simon Tack...
...long, colonnaded, concrete arcade, achieves serenity by way of severity. His 1976 school in the town of Fagnano was a similarly stripped-down collection of elemental components. Yet, as if to confound those who would pigeonhole him as a weltschmerzy ascetic, Rossi took the opposite tack for a family crypt completed in 1987. The little chapel has a sweet brick exterior, with oddly incomplete cornice and a carved-wood interior of pediments, columns and mock windows...