Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because of restrictions on journalists moving about the country, word started trickling out only last week. According to Afghan refugees newly arrived in Pakistan, a fuel tanker in a military convoy collided with another military truck 70 miles north of Kabul, in the 1.7-mile-long Salang Tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains. Initial reports said that there was a fiery explosion. As many as 700 Soviet troops and 2,000 Afghan soldiers and civilians may have died. Later press estimates put the total number of deaths at between...
Patrick Flaherty, field engineer for the Perini Construction Company, said work on the Harvard Square based section of the subway tunnel is basically complete, with only "finish work" on interior insulation remaining...
...entire $573 million project slated for completion by 1984 involves construction of a subway tunnel from Harvard Square to an area near Alewife Brook Parkway. All construction in the Square including final cosmetic work will be completed in about one year. John A Carey, project manager for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said yesterday...
...also considering defending Jack Abbot, a convict tunnel-writer who is now charged with murder...
...ways. There was the time, for example, when the manager of a 100-person IBM sales unit rented a stadium in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey for an evening. Before spouses, children and some top executives, all members of the sales staff ran through the players' tunnel to the field while their names were flashed on an electronic scoreboard to the cheers of the crowd...