Word: abreast
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...other institutions that have facilities for the handicapped. In San Francisco, the Bay Area's new rapid transit system, BART, has equipped all stations with elevators to carry wheelchair users to both the ticket-buying and train levels; train doors are wide enough for two wheelchairs to enter abreast. Washington's new subway system has followed suit. In Atlanta, Milwaukee and Sacramento, public buses are being fitted out with special lifts to hoist wheelchairs up from the sidewalk. (Champaign, Ill., buses have been so equipped for two decades.) In Sacramento and Palo Alto, ramps have been built into...
...Crimson responded faintly with one run in the bottom of the first and put two more across the plate in the second inning. Harvard and Northeastern kept abreast through the third inning, scoring one run apiece...
...from those dark days still in high power. And then, Kissinger told his patient listeners, the American people would probably wake up with the spring flowers to see what he and some others had long known: the power of the Soviet Union was drawing abreast of the U.S.'s-a profound shock after a quarter-century of overwhelming superiority...
...bitter winter wind churned up the North Atlantic waves last week, the Icelandic gunboat Thor headed for a covey of British fishing trawlers that had moved into a forbidden conservation area. Guarding the trawlers, the British frigate Yarmouth kept close cover on Thor. While both vessels were running closely abreast at a brisk 16 knots, one of them-the accounts differ-veered toward the other. Warning blasts were sounded, engines were thrown full astern. It was too late. Yarmouth's bow sliced into Thor, ripping away the starboard wing of the gunboat's bridge...
...purpose of this course," I said on opening night, "isn't to 'teach' you academic sociology. Our society is in turmoil--some would say falling apart--and yet most sociologists seem to be trying to keep abreast of the action as if they were referees in a fast sport. History doesn't have any referees; everyone is a player. It doesn't have fixed rules, so Nixon's football analogies don't really hold. You have to learn to call the shots for yourselves. Social scientists may help, but ultimately they can't do it for you. There's already...