Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...buses delivered low rates and lots of laughs to more than 1,000 coast-to-coast passengers. The prototype was a VW van on the Portland-to-Berkeley run ten years ago. Its success prompted a flock of imitators, which still crisscross the continent summers and during the Christmas break. "We all know we're working on borrowed time," says one of the owners, who also doubles as a bus driver. "One of these days we'll be found out, and it will be over." At Big Spring, Texas, we have to trade drivers with the westbound...
Last year's inflation was the worst since 1974, Thomas O'Brien, vice president for financial affairs, said this week. In addition, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences policy of trying to break even on all room and board charges passes inflation costs directly on to students and their parents...
...giving a course of injections to his wife, Soroya, in a vain attempt to reverse her childlessness. He badgered her so often to make love with her husband that she finally lost her temper. "Doctor," she snapped, "all I'm asking you to do is find something to break my eggs. I'll see the Shah goes on making omelettes." The news of the successful coup cheered the Shah over this contretemps, however, and he returned triumphantly to Iran...
...Crimson was running its fast-break offense when Purdy sent George in on a partial breakaway. Tredway attempted to trip the elder Hughes, but George cut quickly to his left, moved Hayward way out of position, and deposited a tough angle shot to the right corner...
Tenants also suggested constructing a new building or putting in an underground facility during the Tuesday meeting. "We explained to them that since the GSD's financial fortunes are at the break-even point, economics would constrain us from doing anything like that," Brown said yesterday...