Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chicago's O'Hare airport, already the most delay-plagued hub in the U.S., may be taking a turn for the worse. The slowdown comes as the result of excessive stress on O'Hare's air-traffic controllers, who committed four errors over five days in late September and early October. In one incident, two United Airlines jets passed within 500 ft. of each other. Blaming a shortage of experienced controllers at O'Hare, the Federal Aviation Administration reduced landings at the airport from 96 an hour to 80 during evening rush hours. Last week the FAA also recommended...
...Traffic is limited to the east side of the bridge during construction, and pedestrians and cyclists must share a sidewalk...
Thailand's dance of the seven veils begins in Bangkok. The capital is a crowded, polluted, traffic-choked mess of some 7 million people. It is also a lyrical place where it seems almost natural to spend a morning in a walled compound full of temples, an afternoon shopping for sapphires, silks and lacquerware in an air-conditioned arcade, an evening dining in spicy splendor along the Chao Phya River, and a night on Patpong, the most freewheeling bar strip in the world. Pleasure becomes business in a city that is both sedative and stimulant. At first light...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Mary Dunn (Deputy Picture Editor); Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Rose Keyser, Julia Richer (Assistant Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Traffic); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor) Researchers: Dorothy Affa Ames, Martha Bardach, Stanley Kayne, Paula Hornak Kellner, Polly J. Matthews, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith- Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Eleanor Taylor, Mary Themo Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, P. F. Bentley, William Campbell, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Steve Liss, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Chris Niedenthal, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David...
Police use traffic violations to apprehend suspected drug runners and bypass the constitutional protection from unreasonable searches and seizures. Because any person who even remotely resembles the stereotypical drug runner can be stopped almost on a whim, this technique can be subject to the most flagrant abuses...