Word: bays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of a boom in urban rail-system construction. "There is more development going on now than in the past 100 years," exults Jack Gilstrap, executive vice president of the American Public Transit Association (A.P.T.A.). Since 1972, when San Francisco cut the ribbon on its high-tech headache, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), six other U.S. cities have opened new rail systems. Six cities currently have lines under construction. Thirteen other systems either have been proposed or are on the drawing boards...
...clusive as ever, and resort has to be had to mindlessly brutal, almost genocidal, terror tactics The fact that Moscow sees President Reagan as a strong and decisive leader further inhibits its spirit of adventure. The Soviet Union needs militarism and the threat of war primarily to keep at bay mounting pressures for reform inside its empire and to intimidate foreign countries, especially Europe. Although its forces are general for waging offensive nuclear war, the imponderables of such a war are too great to tempt precipitous moves...
...Green Bay Packers--Named Herb Pouter special teams' coach...
...during his early campaigns, or that he enjoyed (and warped) his books most when reading them in the bathtub. More politically controversial subjects, on the other hand, seem out of place here; Manchester brushes over them in his desire to blame no one. Yes, Kennedy sent troops into the Bay of Pigs, but military advisors had misled him; and he sent more to Vietnam, but planned to recall them by 1965. Even more disturbing, however, are the intensely personal moments Manchester forces us to share, such as Kennedy's reaction to the death of his infant son Patrick. These seem...
...ENGLAND TRADITIONS die hard. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for instance, tourists continue to through to Faneuil Hall, the official Bay State beverage is still cranberry juice and in the political realm of the House of Representatives, Thomas W. McGee remains crown prince and dictator at the State House. The 59 year-old ex-Marine from Lynn is still among the most enduring of institutions on Beacon Hill, a man whose iron lock on the legislative process has long gone unrivaled by his elected colleagues. He has held the prestigious job of Speaker of the House for the past eight...