Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deficit in the seventh looked unpromising, as Cornell prepared to finish off the sweep. The Big Red actually began to pack their equipment as the inning got underway, and the team bus pulled up behind the field, waiting to take the happy conquerors home...
Meantime, ridership on mass transit is dropping. After weeks of increased patronage, revenues have begun to dip on Boston's rail and bus systems. In San Francisco, a 5% decline in transit customers has been matched by an increase in auto traffic on the Bay and Golden Gate bridges. The same pattern holds for the Metro in Washington, B.C., where the number of bus riders is steadily dwindling from a peak of 2.6 million passengers a week at the height of the energy shortage in March. Another gas-saving alternative-car pooling-has caught on only in Washington...
This ghostly Pirsig-past continues to haunt Pirsig-present as well as his son. There is a climactic moment when Pirsig thinks that he is again losing his grip and that Phaedrus may regain control. He decides to send the boy home by bus and check into a hospital. The boy refuses to go and begins to weep uncontrollably. Then, for the first time, father and son confront the painful truth about Phaedrus. The past and present come together, and Pirsig and Chris, who up to this point have seemed like subject and object, are united by what might...
Unfortunately, most of the library's potential clientele will come from outside Massachusetts and will arrive by car and bus. There is simply no place to accommodate these vehicles except on the streets of surrounding neighborhoods...
Members of the Harvard Republican Club are just as guilty of intolerance. With an infuriatingly superior attitude once on the return bus, they belittled the peaceful demonstrators, whose only crime, as far as I could see, was disagreeing with the almighty Republican Club. One student even boasted that he had torn down a sizable number of the NAM posters announcing the anti-Ford demonstration. Such unlawful censorship is both disgusting and appalling, especially when one considers that the basic evil of Watergate is the same: use of unlawful means to assure the predominance of one political viewpoint...