Word: subways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instances of victimology are so ludicrous. Two men hiding in a New York City subway tunnel were burned when they accidentally touched an electrified rail; a jury threw $13 million at them. The city is appealing the award. Joel Steinberg, the wife beater and child abuser who was convicted in New York City in 1989 of the battering death of his six-year-old illegally adopted daughter Lisa, told the court, "I'm a victim, as was everyone else who knew Lisa...
...subway entrance in central Rome, a Senegalese street vendor displays his wares. He lives with 20 other foreigners in a three-story house with no hot water. He thinks the Italians are racist because "when we get on a bus, they move away from...
...York City subway train stocked with edgy white folks and one slouched and stuporous young black man, three inner-city toughs storm into the car. They shout at the black rider, then drag him to the floor and stomp on his face. The other passengers cringe, until the pummeling abruptly ceases and all four men rise smiling, as if for a curtain call. "Ladies and gentlemen!" one of the thugs intones with cultured geniality. "You have just witnessed another performance of Ghetto Theater...
Daniel E. Geer, co-chair of Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods, called Scheme Z "a loop-de-loop, above-ground monstrosity." "Bury Scheme Z" graffitti appeared on signs in subway trains which advertised the jobs and cash flow created by the Central Artery. And Elizabeth Epstein of the city's Conservation in Commission said she had "good reason to believe that there are better alternatives...
...sparkling underground railway that ferries Senators back and forth between their offices and the Capitol should be converted into a nonstop people mover remains a mystery. Built in 1912, the subway was completely refurbished in 1958; the current plan is to create a "loop" of cars that run * slowly but continuously so people can step on and off. But the old system is in no evident need of repair. Perhaps that is why no Senator will admit sponsoring this expenditure, which was added to the appropriation bill of the Senate Appropriations Committee's legislative-branch subcommittee at a session during...