Word: roadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taxi pulled away from the Tambov train station, spraying mud and loose gravel from the potholed roadway. The landmarks were typical of a rural Russian administrative center. A tank seemed poised to topple off the memorial honoring the heroism of local citizens in the Great Fatherland War, as World War II is known. A crane loomed above the construction site of the new Communist Party headquarters, just across from an imposing statue of Lenin thrusting his arm into the future. Political posters and slogans of a type that had all but vanished from Moscow could be seen on billboards...
Sputtering burning fuel, a large chunk of the fuselage struck a hill outside Lockerbie, then careened into a gas station and two rows of houses, gouging a 20-ft.-wide crater in a roadway. In the center of town, an aircraft engine lay embedded in the street. Sixty bodies were later recovered from a nearby golf course and taken to the town hall, which had been turned into a makeshift mortuary. One body was found on a back porch, another entangled in the branches of a tree. Three miles away, the plane's blue-and-white cockpit, containing the bodies...
From his helicopter window, the President could see little last week except a brown ocean of muddy floodwater. In one area, all that protruded from the earth's watery surface were some straw roofs, treetops and a narrow stretch of broken dike-top roadway 20 miles long. At least 220,000 people had taken refuge on this chain of tiny islands, and were building makeshift shanties. Some had managed to bring along their cows and goats, which were being kept alive on a diet of water hyacinths. Elsewhere, survivors were obliged to fight off poisonous snakes that had sought refuge...
...plan for "freeing the freeways." Computer models showed traffic engineers where to expand the system and where to streamline it by eliminating entrances and exits. Today the highway features as many as ten lanes, includes eight rebuilt interchanges and can handle four times as much volume as the old roadway. Although work on the southern portion of the highway is still under way, tie-ups north of downtown are rare. Says Dodi Fromson, an antiques dealer from Southern California who visited Atlanta: "I certainly knew I wasn't in Los Angeles...
...single remaining two-lane span. Government officials could have repaired the damaged structure for about $30 million, but decided it was time for a bigger, safer bridge. The new span, which opened last year, employs a graceful monopole design in which supporting cables radiate from two central towers. The roadway has four extra-wide lanes and ten-foot shoulders to enable drivers with car trouble to pull out of traffic. Thick concrete bumpers protect the bridge's main piers against maritime collisions...