Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entirely out of luck, however. The accommodating MBTA is providing shuttle bus service when the 'T' is off-limits...
...reckoning, the high court's "parochiaid" rulings have walked, or wobbled along, a fine line, with public assistance to religious schools sometimes rejected, sometimes approved. In certain circumstances, as Burger noted, a state may lend textbooks to parochial students, and it may pay their bus fare. In 1983 the court upheld a Minnesota law permitting parents to deduct private school tuition from their state income taxes. The court's increasing tolerance toward state-church collaboration in general seemed even clearer when the Minnesota ruling was followed by two decisions allowing a publicly paid legislative chaplain in Nebraska and a publicly...
...known that Shevardnadze has long cultivated an unpretentious life-style of the kind that Gorbachev seems to favor. At a time when the families of other Georgian officials lived in splendid villas and drove around in limousines, Shevardnadze's wife Nanuli, a journalist, was said to take the bus to work. Although he is both admired and disliked in Georgia for his crackdown on corruption, early this year he felt confident enough of his position to authorize a newspaper poll of public reaction to his policies, a rare and unorthodox action for a Soviet party official...
...mixed ancestry who hail from countries that sometimes seem to have little in common except historical traditions and the Spanish language itself, and even that gets a little confused at times. For example, the translation by someone from a country bordering the Caribbean for "I am waiting for the bus" might be taken by a native of South America's Andes region to signify "I am waiting for the small child." Many use the word Hispanic only when distinguishing themselves from Anglos (another catchall term meaning all non-Hispanic whites; it applies to people of German, Italian, Jewish and other...
...success stories should not blot out the fact that many aliens face considerable hardships with little immediate chance of advancement. Avan Wong, 20, came from Hong Kong in 1983 and hoped to go to college. She lives in the Bronx with her aged father, commutes two hours by bus to a job of up to twelve hours a day in a suburban restaurant. "I don't even read the newspapers," she says. "You don't have time. Once you go home, you go to sleep. Once you get up, you have to go to work. The only thing...