Word: boulevard
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Five days later, the Iraqi leader could no longer keep up his staunch facade. His orders largely unheeded, his soldiers declining to fight, Saddam went out for a look at his falling capital, a secretary who accompanied him recalls. Saddam stood on Zaitun Street, the boulevard decorated with monumental statues of two muscular forearms holding swords that cross above the roadway. As he turned to leave, he paused. Using an Arabic expression of utter disillusionment, he muttered, "Even my clothes have betrayed...
...Road to Perdition The Philippines built a 5.1-km highway to take pressure off Roxas Boulevard, a bayside avenue named for former President Manuel Roxas. The new road is called President Diosdado Macapagal Avenue to honor another former leader, father of current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. But when the road's budget went from $9.1 million to $20 million, there was a public fuss and the entire board of the government agency in charge of the project was forced to go on involuntary leave. That's no way to honor the President's father: some are now suggesting the road...
...Hollywood in 1964, founder Wayne Mitchell, a former car salesman from the Midwest, was running a chain of California organ shops. Mitchell bought out a competitor, acquiring a shipment of guitars and amplifiers. Almost as an afterthought, he hung a GUITAR CENTER sign on a storefront on Sunset Boulevard to unload the new merchandise and launched his company from the sleepy world of keyboards into the nascent West Coast rock scene. The Hollywood outlet soon gained a reputation as a place where the stars shopped--some of its earliest customers included members of Led Zeppelin and the Beach Boys. Since...
...spill from Yanjing's kegs into the streets. Our cab would follow ant lines of tricycles, one rolling in empty, one clinking out full, past packed restaurants; and there would be Germans, lots of jolly Germans, licking foam from facial hair and shouting for another round. But the empty boulevard carried us in efficient quietness to the gates of Yanjing's Mansion of Science and Technology. The guard saluted the car around the fountain and under a granite colonnade. Clocks told the time in Paris, London and New York City. A man in a suit waited with his namecard...
...German Framatome ANP and General Electric are also bidding for the contract. To make its case, ASE has adopted an American-style lobbying and public-relations campaign, a rarity in Finland. It has established a company called Oivavoima Oy (Excellent Power), with offices on Pohjoisesplanadi, an elegant tree-lined boulevard in Helsinki. From here it hopes to conquer all of Western Europe. Emphasizing that ASE uses a different reactor than the one at Chernobyl, Jari Anttila, Oivavoima's managing director, says: "There is no serious reason why the general public in Finland should question our technology." The final decision...