Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposed to be routine meeting of the Ordinance Committee. On the agenda was whether to grant MIT's request that certain hearings and reports be waived in the university's application to build a tunnel to connect two buildings under a city street...
...institute went on the defensive preemptively, trotting out professors, students and affiliates to testify to MIT's importance to the city's growth. And to the importance of the tunnel--which runs from its new Biology building to other research buildings--to the city...
...tunnel is essential to MIT's plans to stay on the cutting edge of industry, hence their buttons and signs, Suduiko said...
...never been late once in all my years in the theater," she says, scoffing at my having allowed only an extra hour to travel from Washington to New York City. Surely she could find a way to forgive the delay, what with the shuttle, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, the stop at Random House to be cleared by the p.r. department, and the general rule of life that if anything can go wrong, it will. "Four hours. You should have allowed four hours. Anything less is dumb. I was 15 minutes early today...
...voted to ax most of next year's $483.7 million funding for the superconducting supercollider, designed to be the world's biggest atom smasher. The collider is meant to reveal the mysteries of the sub-sub-atomic world by crashing particles together inside an 86-km (54-mile) oval tunnel that will literally surround the town of Waxahachie, Texas. But it also bears the world's biggest price tag: $8.3 billion all told, and rising. That was too super for even the House...