Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation's economic downturn, more harshly reflected in the Northeast than elsewhere, offers little hope for future relief. Says financier Felix Rohatyn, who devised the plan that saved New York from bankruptcy 15 years ago: "I just don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, we cannot turn our back on the city now." Facing a $1.8 billion shortfall, the Dinkins administration has been forced to raise taxes $800 million and cut city services more than $200 million...
First scientists must eliminate other sources of radiation that may trigger false signals in the gallium. (To shield the experiment from cosmic rays, the detectors are installed in an underground tunnel, beneath a mile of rock.) About the only thing harder than proving that solar neutrinos passed through the gallium-filled tanks is proving that they didn...
...MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Many a summer theater tries Shakespeare's comic delight, but perhaps only the Open Door Theater, a troupe that moves from town to town trying to reacquaint the heartland with the live stage, has set it in a coal mine -- Pioneer Tunnel in Ashland, Pa., this week only...
...latticework of wood, which provides the sense of ricketiness, danger and nostalgia that riders love. In fact, roller coasters are safer than ever. Unlike old coasters, which speed out and back over often predictable sets of hills, today's rides careen through tight turns, 60 degrees plunges and dark tunnels, sometimes spinning riders upside down. There are coasters on which passengers ride standing up, others that run backward and still more featuring cars that are suspended below the tracks. At Houston's AstroWorld, the outrageous Ultra Twister hurls its riders headfirst from nine stories up, then barrel-rolls them back...
...business school to raise funds and manage the team's financial affairs. Every school got $7,000 in seed money from the race's sponsors, and most raised many thousands more. But Michigan's team gathered nearly $800,000. Not only is its Sunrunner computer-designed and wind-tunnel-tested, but it is also assisted by a scout vehicle carrying weather-forecasting equipment and by a rolling metal shop (complete with lathes and drill press) to help make any needed repairs. The Michigan racers have a computerized map of every traffic light and speed zone along the course, a film...