Word: blows
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...ridership has declined sharply with the growth of car ownership and the burgeoning popularity of air travel. The toughest blow came in 1978, when deregulation of the airline industry spawned a fleet of cut-rate carriers. On some routes plane fares became as cheap as bus tickets. It was no surprise, then, that between 1980 and 1985 total intercity bus travel dropped by 29%, from 27.4 billion passenger miles to 19.5 billion...
Executives say the access fee would be a heavy blow to a still young industry. Customers are not happy either. Last week computer buffs were already flashing electronic messages to one another in an effort to organize a "modem march" on Washington...
...enter into discussions with Japan and Norway regarding compensation for damage to United States national security." The next day members of a Senate subcommittee on international finance raised the possibility of a long-term ban on U.S. imports of Toshiba and Kongsberg products. That would be an especially devastating blow to Toshiba (1986 revenues: $22.8 billion), which exported $1.6 billion in TV sets, VCRs and other goods to the U.S. last year...
...crowd. Later this year PBS will air a tribute to him staged at the Wolf Trap music festival and featuring Vocalist Carmen McRae and Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The jazz legend still wails on his trademark bent-up horn, because, he says, "you hear the sound quicker. I never blow straight at anybody unless it's an angel up in the heavens...
...have found many Southerners to be anti-intellectual, unchallenging, sexist and racist. I have struggled to feel comfortable with a society where racists threatened to blow up my grandparents' home because my grandfather helped desegregate the state university in the 1960s. I have struggled to accept a society where intelligent, aggressive women subvert their ambition and fire to be attractive to the men around them. I have struggled to cope with the fact that most of my high school classmates went on to perfectly good schools, joined perfectly good fraternities and sororities and are well on their way to alcoholism...