Word: tunnelling
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...comparison, initiatives with broad-based support--like a bill supported by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and leaders of Digitas and the Harvard Computer Society and designed to remodel to Science computer terminals and protect students from acquiring carpal tunnel syndrome--were termed "irrelevant" by council executives. The practical and relevant was sacrificed to the obscure and trivial...
Over the past few months, Boston's Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project (better known as The Big Dig) has been hit by a new wave of criticism. The attack has come from Rep. Frank Wolfe, Republican of Virginia and chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation. Local politicians have always been adept at pouncing on the project's numerous gaffes and missteps, but Wolfe's campaign is entirely unique. It is indicative of a new era in Boston politics...
Wolfe's proposal certainly appears to be in the best interest of the American people. More than 80 percent of the funding for The Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project comes from the federal government. It is the most expensive federally funded public works project ever, and cost projections increase almost yearly. While there is certainly a great need for highway improvements in Boston, there is no reason that Massachusetts should receive more federal assistance than any other state, especially when the long term costs are so undefined...
...cousin John Cooley's ranch," says Dawson, a native Montanan who has reported from the West for TIME for 15 years. He notes that the state has a "colorful and maybe not always noble history of vigilante movements." And although Dawson was surprised by "the accumulated anger and tunnel vision" of some of the Freemen's followers, the situation did not seem to him to be particularly dangerous. "They have guns," he says. "So do I. Who doesn't around here...
...decided that this interdiction method could also cripple some critical equipment that Gaddafi had already purchased--60-ton rotary boring machines used to tunnel into the mountain. Analysts traced them to the German manufacturer Westfalia-Becorit. The firm's executives told German officials they legally delivered the machines to a Thai company, which claimed Libya bought them to build road tunnels for a river irrigation project...