Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event was Insurance Executive William McCann, who has been appointed Ambassador to Ireland. During the campaign, Reagan attended a rally with Donovan at a New York City site where Schiavone Construction, with the help of Masselli's Jo-Pel Contracting, was working on a new midtown subway tunnel. A source familiar with the construction project told TIME that Donovan introduced Masselli and another man indicted with him, Joseph Bugliarelli, to Reagan. Says a spokeswoman for Donovan: "No introduction was made to the President that the Secretary recalls...
October 14--The City of Cambridge announces plans to file suit against Harvard for the cost of repairs to the Kirkland St. underpass, built by Harvard. City officials say the tunnel was built with improperly installed water seals, and that the present project, fixing water leaks, cost Cambridge...
...stage effects-"a black looneytune," Writer Michael Herr called it in his Viet Nam masterpiece Dispatches, Indochina became the demented intersection of a bizarrely inventive killer technology (all of those "daisy cutters" and carpet-laying B-52s and mad swarms of choppers and infra-red nightscopes) with a tunnel-digging peasantry in rubber-tire sandals: the amazing, night-dwelling Victor Charlie...
...water-main breaks that cost $60 million to repair. Potholes and other road defects prompted 1,941 property damage claims totaling $20.9 million. The ramshackle subway system is notoriously unreliable. Three weeks ago, a train bound for Manhattan from Queens broke down, stranding 1,500 passengers in a tunnel under the East River for more than an hour. Concerned New York businessmen are banding together to lobby for change. One group called Business for Mass Transit has taken advertisements in the New York Times to deliver a warning to city and state officials: "The impending collapse of our subways...
...White House press conference, David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, accused the Democrats of "singing the same old tune of higher spending," and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan added, "They've seen the light but they want to stay in the tunnel." They had a point: to preserve funds for social programs, the Democrats are relying in part on other "savings" that seem highly questionable. Among them: $4.9 billion to be pared "by elimination of waste and mismanagement," a hoary promise rarely if ever fulfilled; and $1.5 billion to be recovered from oil companies that allegedly...