Word: tunnelling
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...alternatives presented at the press conference, 8.ID Mod 5, had already won approval from the Cantabrigians who had opposed Scheme Z. Its plan calls for a 10-lane bridge across the Charles River and a three -lane tunnel under the river...
...Egypt, where a judge last week issued a warrant for the sheik's arrest, Abdel Rahman's supporters vowed a global bomb campaign to avenge his U.S. detention. Which did little to reassure New Yorkers about their safety. On Thursday bomb scares closed the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and one entrance to Kennedy Airport. A ninth suspect in the case of the would-be U.N. bombers was arrested, but some other plotters may be still at large. Meanwhile, at bail hearings for some of the original eight suspects, FBI officials charged that their targets also included the George Washington Bridge...
...taxi driver in a battered vehicle with a Bruegger's Bagel bag in the front hailed me and began driving me at breakneck speed to Somerville, cursing at the traffic in the tunnel and stopping reluctantly to pay the toll...
Like many national trends, the anti-immigrant backlash is appearing first and strongest in California. The nation's most populous state is the biggest lure for illegal immigrants, mainly Mexicans who sneak, run, and tunnel across the frontier in numbers far greater than the border patrol can possibly control. They then compete for jobs in a state that has suffered deeper employment losses than most during the long national recession and limping recovery. Or so say the critics; allies of the immigrants insist they actually make the economy more competitive by taking low-wage, manual-labor jobs that Americans scorn...
...transept, which serves as the Sanders Theatre Jobby, will remain largely intact except for a few issued more quickly once a commit-improvements in lighting and the elimination of the wind tunnel effect which plagues the chamber...