Word: bulleting
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...plight of U.S. passenger travel is downright humiliating when it is compared with the superb services of, say, Japan, France and Britain. British trains run so close to the mark that passengers carp about a five-minute overdue arrival. Japan's celebrated bullet trains, at up to 130 m.p.h., make the U.S. counterparts seem like earthworms. Naturally such service does not come free. Britain subsidizes its trains at a yearly rate of $728 million, Japan (with less than half the U.S. track mileage) at $4.1 billion and France at $930 million...
...Iran's leading Islamic theologians, was leaving a home where he had been conferring with Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. Behind the holy man, out of the shadows, stepped two gunmen. Motahari never saw them. A single shot rang out, and he fell mortally wounded with a bullet through the back of his head. His killers fled...
...band of Amin's soldiers robbed Headmaster Kibunka Peregrine of his watch and money; then, the headmaster told TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood, one of the soldiers "jammed a hand grenade in my mouth and told me to take him to the deacon." Peregrine knocked on the bullet-scarred door of the deacon's office, but no one emerged. "When Amin's boys left, he came out," says Peregrine. "I knew he was in there all the time. The soldiers came only for loot. If they had come to kill, none of us would be here...
...Palestine Liberation Organization so that the Arabs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank can feel that they have some representation." According to Ball, Washington's recently repeated offer to negotiate with the P.L.O. only if it recognizes Israel is evidence that the Administration is "not biting the bullet...
Crimson senior Gerry Kelleher, who replaced freshman Mike Davis on the second midfield to add some offensive punch, knotted the score two minutes later with a long bullet from out front after a Faught feed...