Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puts together the phrases and creates a person, the haunted Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, a being made of objects. "Love Minus Zero/ No Limit" is a beautiful love song fashioned out of horsemen, pawns, hammer winds, doctors, bridges, statues, fire, ice, dime stores and bus stations, bankers' nieces and wise...
...other remarkable fact about London ticket collectors, and bus drivers, is that most are black. To a visitor, this is probably the clearest and most immediate pointer to a problem which is fast assuming major proportions...
...unusual, therefore, to find that the man collecting your bus fare not only has a high school diploma but also a college degree, or even a Ph.D. A recent issue of the British magazine, The Economist,indignantly addressed itself to the Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle: "How many colored people drive buses in London?" it asked. "And how many are employed as bus inspectors?" The answer: very many for the first question, none for the second. "This is unforgiveable," The Economist says. "Mrs. Castle, please wake...
...religious importance. An instructor watched helplessly while typewriters distributed in Ethiopia turned to junk for lack of care. Language training for the corpsmen was once squeezed into 50 hours, and one slum worker in a Chilean callampa did not have enough Spanish to ask how to get to the bus that would take him to work. "At times they miss the mark," Vaughn confesses. "And when they do, it's certain we helped them miss...
...been seeking. It amounts to little more than a substantial sweetening of current unemployment benefits, under which idled workers get 62% of their wages. The new plan provides as much as 95%, after a weekly deduction of $7.50 that nonworking workers do not have to spend for lunch and bus fare...