Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called transbus system is adequate for disabled passengers. He prefers specially constructed vans, which already provide door-to-door service in Dade County for more than 800 people a day, but he expects that the high cost of the transbuses (as much as $50,000 more than a regular bus) will halt the expansion of the special van service. Still, the transbuses will soon be introduced in one of the nation's largest public transportation systems, the Southern California Rapid Transit District in Los Angeles...
...Next day she quarreled with her parents over having stayed out most of the night, so she ran off to see her new friend. He said she would have to work the street to stay with him and steal money from her customers so she could get their bus fare to Chicago. Once there, she earned another $800 in three weeks. The two moved on to Manhattan, where she picked up men around luxury hotels, robbing them when she could. Sick of the life after six weeks, she tried to leave her pimp, but he broke her jaw. After hospitalization...
...Eastern gamblers, Harrah's has boosted its earnings-an average of 19% a year, compounded, for more than two decades-mainly by mass-merchandising its casinos and shows. Last year it spent $36 million on promotion and brought in more than a quarter of a million patrons by bus, mostly from nearby California. Acknowledges President Lloyd Dyer: "We are the Safeway of the industry...
...tell your grandchildren) while leading the S.G. Cortina Doria Club to the Italian ice hockey championship. Bertagna returned to the states last year to play for a team in Wisconsin while attending Marquette's School of Journalism. But the rough and tumble semi-pro existence, complete with 12-hour bus rides, booster clubs and other low life proved too seamy for Bertagna, who turned to the typewriter instead...
...other respects, Edwardes would seem to be taking over at the worst possible time. Leyland's share of the British auto market has dropped to just over 20% currently, from 27.5% in 1976. Though Leyland's truck and bus operations are still profitable, auto losses pared companywide pretax profits to less than $23 million in the first half of 1977 (on sales of $2.4 billion), from almost $97 million a year earlier on slightly smaller sales. And those figures mask a serious cash shortage; in July, Leyland had to borrow 5180 million from the government's National...