Search Details

Word: overpasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...separate case involving a similar principle, a federal judge held the city of Miami in contempt of court last week for destroying bedrolls, clothes and medicine belonging to homeless people living under a highway overpass. The city was ordered to pay $2,500 to a homeless shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Be It Ever So Humble . . . | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

...Connecticut man has been convicted of murder. The man argues in his defense that the police made an illegal search of his "home" -- the cardboard boxes he used as a chest of drawers as he sheltered beneath a highway overpass -- in order to get their evidence. Does the Fourth Amendment protect cardboard boxes? What is the legal definition of home? What confers the sanctity of home? A lease or a deed? Four walls? How thick or thin? Must home have doors and locks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Bright Cave Under the Hat | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...concrete posts in front of Sackler are not products of Le Corbusier's fascination with basic geometric forms (that's the Carpenter Center, remember). They are portions of a never-built overpass that would have connected Sackler to the Fogg. Since the Cambridge City Council nixed the plan, you will have to risk your life crossing Broadway, one of several streets in Cambridge where drivers have no concept of the the speed limit...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Learning Outside the Harvard Classroom | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...they turned down when they bought their house four years ago. And while they are still determined to stand their ground, they have a new sense of how it can shift under their feet. Says Rene: "Now when I go out for a run and go under a freeway overpass, I look up and say, 'Not now, please' -- and speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is California Worth the Risk? | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...dissuade the reporters from venturing out. Undaunted, Banta's translator gunned his small Czech-made Skoda down the city's cobblestone streets, one of the cars roaring behind. He finally shook off the pursuers with a neat "FBI turn" -- a screeching U across three lanes of traffic on an overpass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Mar 27 1989 | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next