Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's energy output depends). With its import prices rising twice as fast as its export prices, Denmark suffered a more than $ 1 billion balance of payments deficit in 1974. Unemployment, at a 22-year high, has cut deeply into some professions. "If you take the No. 6 bus on Thursdays," observes Architect JØrgen Andersen, 39, "it is full of architects on their way to the unemployment office." (Andersen himself will be laid off by March 1.) They are casualties of the slump in the construction industry. Other industries particularly hard hit: textiles, meat-packing...
Within minutes of the attack, hordes of irate "Southie" residents surged in front of the high school's imposing iron gates. "Bus them back to Africa!" they screamed. "Why are we here?" shrieked one man. "To get those niggers!" When Boston police, bolstered by 125 state troopers, charged the mob, the crowd retaliated by hurling bricks and bottles. They slashed the tires on police cruisers and even tipped one over. While four school buses roared up to the front door to divert the attention of the crowd, the school's black students were herded onto buses...
...supermarket not only is discouraging, what with soaring prices, but can be dangerous because of rising crime. Denver is experimenting with a promising technique to ease both problems. Financed by a regional-council grant of $45,115, a nonprofit organization called Senior Services Inc. has remodeled a 45-passenger bus as a mobile grocery store and stocked it with items priced just above wholesale levels. The bus makes ten stops a week in low-income neighborhoods and housing projects, and the police department sends along an escort for security. So promising is the innovation that there is already talk...
...Some 1,500 mayors, city managers and councilmen told grim tales of how inflation and recession are combining to raise costs and erode tax bases. Even as they met, the administrators got a backdoor reminder of one of their bigger problems: increased militancy by public employees. Houston's bus drivers were on strike, demanding higher...
...subsidies will help compensate hard-pressed metropolitan transit systems for rising labor, energy and maintenance costs, thus enabling them to hold the line on fares. After the signing, for example, New York City Mayor Abraham Beame predicted that New York City would now be able to keep its 350 bus and subway fare at least through 1975. Low fares, along with the improvements in equipment and service that the bill's remaining $7.8 billion will bring, should encourage urban Americans to use mass transit instead of relying so heavily on autos...