Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stagger and have blurred vision. At the moment of the crash, he had to contend with driving an unwieldy, armored Mercedes at speeds more than triple the posted 30 mph limit ? all the while being pursued by paparazzi on motor scooters. When the car entered the 660-ft. tunnel on the Place de l'Alma, investigators say, it struck the concrete divider that separates the eastbound lanes from the westbound and apparently cartwheeled, overturning, then spinning nearly 180 degrees. Fayed and Paul were killed instantly; the car's horn wailed under the weight of the chauffeur's body slumped against...
...incident occurred in a tunnel along the Seine River around midnight local time as the princess, 36, and her 42-year-old Egyptian boyfriend, Emad "Dodi" al-Fayed fled the photographers, who pursued on motorcycles. Their Mercedes Benz went out of control and was crushed in the ensuing accident. "The car had clearly done a lot of spinning and was facing in the opposite direction," said Scott MacLeod, of TIME's Paris Bureau...
...more than 30 years you live in a nice house on a quiet street, and then one day there's a knock at the door. It's a man who informs you that your home is going to be bulldozed to make way for a roadway tunnel to a new casino. Sorry about that. But the owner of the casino wants to do the right thing and pay you to wake the kids, call the movers and start packing. Just sign right here, please...
...Bryants have a billboard-size NO TUNNEL sign in front of their split-level, four-bedroom house. But they can almost hear the bulldozer creeping closer, with bids on the roadway project due this week, and it isn't just Steve Wynn who's behind the wheel. If the bids are within projections, he will have New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman and Atlantic City Mayor James Whelan with him, all of them preaching the gospel of small personal sacrifices for the greater public good. If you build it, suckers will come. As will thousands of jobs, millions of dollars...
...pages. "The obvious focus," he emphasizes, continues to be on JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, "but not the sole focus." The prosecutor cautions that "our job, since we don't know the truth, is to keep an open mind, not to have some kind of tunnel vision and certainly not to try to cram evidence into some pet theory...