Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wellesley College student grill with my friend Rick, waiting for the bus to take us to the "March for Women's Lives." Many of the women at the grill weren't going on the march. Too much homework. They seemed slightly miffed that two Harvard guys were displaying any sort of social conscience...
...cheer went up as the bus pulled out into the night. The bus captains took roll call. When they called out my name, I could almost hear women on the bus think "man," drawing out the "a" to make it a four letter word. After roll call people took out their books or their Walkpersons and settled in for the long ride to Washington...
...bus conversations slowly turned to abortion. There was a general consensus among the women on the bus: a woman must have a choice. It's her body, after all. It's her life...
Much of the criticism of corporate antidrug efforts focuses on the growing use of urinalysis (see box). Opponents charge that urine tests are a particularly invasive and humiliating method of determining whether a worker has used drugs. Says Bus Driver Randy Kemp, whose employer, Seattle Metro, requires employees who appear to be impaired to submit blood and urine samples: "You've got to have a search warrant to search my house. Well, my body is a lot more sacred than my home...
Among requirements for the rank of eagle scout are community service, leadership and organizational ability. So when Scout Kenneth Pulley industriously organized volunteers a year ago to clean and paint eight of the 800 bus shelters in his hometown of Portland, he was rewarded four months later with a promotion to eagle. More recently, Pulley, 16, earned a less meritorious recognition: his project was cited in a labor grievance for violating the local transit union's contract with the agency that runs the city's buses...