Change in traffic pattern would be good idea

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  April 19, 2005 ;     181 words ......Bent School. Currently, Illinois Route 9 and U.S. 150 traffic going west is directed west on Empire, south on North Lee right past Bent School, then west again on Locust. Now that the demolition of the old Central Catholic High School is complete, why not route...

Liechtenstein voters make prince Europe's most powerful ruler

The Independent - London;  March 17, 2003 ;     251 words ...IS PRINCE Hans-Adam, the ruler of Liechtenstein, a blast from the feudal past, bent on reducing his 32,000 subjects to serfs? Or an intensely modern figure who has redefined prince to mean chief executive, and who...

Fruitville Pike work to begin

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  July 30, 2007 ;     269 words ......in November. The project on Route 772 runs just east of Manheim Borough on the bridge over Chiques Creek to the intersection past Bent Creek at Stonehenge Drive, northeast of East Petersburg. Motorist should expect single-lane traffic restrictions during daylight...

HEAD FOR THE HILLS!

Roanoke Times & World News;  October 18, 2007 ;     391 words ......happening in what is probably the hippest listening room between Johnson City, Tenn., and Washington, D.C. You have to get past Bent Mountain for a show sooner or later, so why not this one? And while you're up there, get a room so you can catch the next show...

Widow, 75, chases bag snatcher

Evening Mail;  November 23, 2001 ;     155 words ......to give up the chase and the woman got away. 'She had unusually put her bag on the back of the trolley when the woman came past, bent down and then just grabbed it and ran off. 'Lillian ran to the tills and told the staff and they went to alert security but...

Widow, 75, chases bag snatcher.

Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  November 23, 2001 ;     162 words ......to give up the chase and the woman got away. 'She had unusually put her bag on the back of the trolley when the woman came past, bent down and then just grabbed it and ran off. 'Lillian ran to the tills and told the staff and they went to alert security but...

Bike ride to trace Pike's footsteps.

Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado);  September 22, 2006 ;     646 words ......day of the event, so we may have more, DiPrince said. The bike route will run from John Martin to Las Animas to Colorado 194 past Bent's Fort to La Junta. From La Junta, bicyclists will head west on U.S. 50 to Manzanola. In Manzanola they will pedal along Highway...

Should the children's teeth be set on edge?

Jerusalem Post;  August 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......which proclaims the role she will play throughout the novel, that of eager detective hot on the trail of her grandmother's past, bent on exposure: She wanted confrontation. She wanted Lucia to change: not to be the lovely grandmother any more, but to show herself...

After 20 yrs., Mike Hammer returns in print, on tape

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 29, 1989 ;     667 words ......orphan, undergoes drug therapy to regain her memory, but instead gains a darkly sinister alter ego, a character from England's past bent on setting bombs in locations such as the Tower of London. A trail of clues leads Scotland Yard detectives to Chase - and a...

China's Threats

The Washington Post;  February 23, 2000 ;     466 words ......willingness to live by international rules. None of this deters the regime from making threats. The administration has in the past bent pretty far to China's wishes. The House was prompted to write the Taiwan bill in part because of President Clinton's public...

Monitor: Comment on the threats by the People's Republic of China to...

The Independent - London;  February 25, 2000 ;     556 words ......to live by international rules. None of this seems to deter the regime from making threats. The US administration has in the past bent pretty far to China's wishes. The US response to China's latest challenge should be shaped, at a minimum, by the need not to...

LIGHTS DIMMING ON N.J. ARTS SCENE

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 18, 1996 ;     700+ words ......subcommittee, in hearings last week. Although the NEA has not been reauthorized since 1993, the Democratic-controlled Congress in the past bent the rules and allowed money to be spent. Republicans, who cut NEA's funding to $99.5 million this year from $162 million last...

An Englishwoman abroad Lost and found in Hong Kong

The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 14, 2001 ;     582 words ......whitewashed cubicles. My camera was still by my side then because, moments before, I'd taken a photograph of an old man who'd hobbled past, bent double and carrying a stick that he tapped on the ground with the sound of a cracking nut. I remember now that I left my camera...