Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday Heather bought thesis binders. Half a dozen people had told her this purchase would be the climax of the thesis rush, the point of no return, the sunlight at the end of the tunnel. It wasn't. The Coop had run out of binders. She found them eventually, but they were outrageously expensive. Later she learned the department gave out old ones gratis...
...bomber is groping upward, electronically blind, attempting to join five others stacked in layers just 500 ft. apart. At 10,000 ft. the sky is an inkwell, and the primary and back-up heading systems are out. The radar works sporadically, and even when it does function, it provides tunnel vision, off to one side. The only dependable navigation aid is a simple compass, just like the ones people stick on the dashboards of their cars...
...like Mont Belvieu, solid nuclear wastes could not trickle through the salt. In fact, he and his colleagues already have some preliminary ideas about how the debris should be buried. Vertical shafts, he explains, would be sunk in solid salt to a depth of about 2,000 ft. Horizontal tunnels would fan out from the bottom of the shafts. The wastes, packaged in corrosion-resistant containers, would be buried beneath the tunnel floors. Then the entire mine would be refilled with salt and sealed...
...PLOT purveys the different ideals and ambitions lifestyles and ideologies that are no doubt common to law students everywhere, and perhaps magnified at Harvard. A Langdell tunnel map, which serves as the backdrop for several scenes, points the direction to Wall Street as well as to the cafeteria. One of the show's subplots involves the quarrels between the aspiring lady capitalist of the 1980s and her boyfriend, a self-styled Che Guevara--ever-ready to spout bleeding heart liberalism and Marxist structuralist dogma...
...Cambridge St. overpass--When Harvard built the overpass connecting the Yard to the Science Center and donated the resulting tunnel to the city, Cambridge thought it was getting a break. But once the tunnel started to crack and leak, causing maintenance headaches and traffic problems, they weren't so sure...