Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the execs visit they drive company cars, and the road isn't even scraped anymore since the superintendent got a helicopter). The drive takes 45 minutes. When they jolt to the end. Dan Sizemore points out the coal train that hauls thousands of tons through a cement tunnel and out to society. In ten minutes the boxcars will pass within a quarter of a mile of the Sizemore's house. "Tells you where we stand," he says...
Leontief, in his 44 years of teaching here, has been one of the few professors who consistently attempted to challenge the Fe Department's tunnel vision toward neo-classical theory, its aversion to reform, and its discrimination against minorities and women. He is also one of the last...
With those words French Secretary of State for Transportation Pierre Billecocq co-signed the historic 1973 treaty committing France and Britain to support the construction of a 32-mile train tunnel under the English Channel. Plans to link the two nations by "chunnel" had graced the drawing boards of imaginative engineers for nearly 200 years; French Engineer Albert Mathieu's 1802 design shows a coach-and-four trotting through a candlelit tube with ventilating pipes reaching above the waves. But whenever the 19th century pipe dream threatened to come true, Britain got skittish. A characteristically insular reaction came from...
...Common Market-and some members of the Labor government see the chunnel as an undesirable link with the Continent. Indeed, many Labor M.P.s cheered enthusiastically when the project was killed. Still, the decision was based more on economics than on politics. Just 18 months ago, the cost for the tunnel was estimated at $2 billion. Today the figure has risen to more than $4.5 billion. Although the construction was being financed by private French and British consortiums, the two governments had agreed to guarantee all loans obtained by the two tunnel companies. Moreover, a high-speed rail connection between...
Happy England. Preliminary work-including a 350-yd. test tunnel-has already cost Britain $70 million, and will cost an additional $50 million in cancellation penalties. For this $120 million, England has, as the London Sunday Times snidely observed, bought herself "two access tunnels to Dover's Shakespeare cliffs." Some Britons, however, are undoubtedly delighted. Their country will remain what William Gladstone called "Happy England. Happy that the wise dispensation of Providence has cut her off by that streak of silver sea . . . partially from dangers, absolutely from the temptations which attend upon the local neighborhood of the continental nations...