Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hapless commuter would want to bump to work on the wheezing New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad defies reason. Dusty seats, dirty floors, sooty windows, one toilet, no towels, no drinking water-that is what he gets. But 200 oldtime commuters (average age: 55) who prefer such rigors to taking buses or their own cars ride the 36-mile commuter run from New Jersey's bedroom suburbs to North Bergen, where buses hook up with Manhattan. Last year the line collected $47,289 in revenues from passengers-and lost $200,000 on them. Former owners did everything to shoo...
...each. How to identify all those eligible to collect? Says Maidman: "The conductors know all the commuters on the line." At week's end, a poll showed that six out of seven of Maidman's persistent commuters planned to spurn the $1,000 and continue to bump it on the Susquehanna...
Burlesque continues to bump along in a few flyspecked theaters around the U.S., its tarnished sequins blinking bravely in the murk of purple spotlights, its audiences of sailors and cackling oldsters still faithful to an art form that refuses to give...
Other economists point out that even the most reliable indicators jounce around so much from month to month that it is usually hard to tell whether an upsurge means the end of a slide or just a bump on the road. This uncertainty is compounded by the fact that some indicators are compiled weekly, some monthly, some quarterly. Thus they refer to different time periods and, to make their message even more confusing, are often subject to revision after they come out. Geoffrey Moore, of Manhattan's private and prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research-which first formulated...
...diplomat, in fact-but eventually settles for a goodolamurrican Secret Service man. Now and then the script calls for a lapse of taste, as when Nanette burns through The First Lady, the sexiest song in the show, or when she comes on in a grass skirt and begins to bump and grind...