Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Airlines are not the only businesses buffeted by deregulation. From bus lines to banking, industries are learning to live without the shackles-or the safety net-of Government rules. And in all cases, stiff price competition has developed where once hardly any existed...
Ironically, the government almost invited such license as it became more and more lenient. Earlier this year, for example, it tolerated a flowering of experimental and unorthodox dramas. Playwright Gao Xingjian's Bus Stop presented a story about eight people awaiting a bus that never arrives. Conspicuously absent were all the trappings of conventional Chinese drama: plot, moral and exhortation. Meanwhile, thousands of citizens were flocking to a production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Miller himself at Peking's prestigious Capital Theater. The spectators sympathized so warmly with Bourgeois Protagonist Willy Loman...
...read two years ago about the earth's warming up because of the increase in carbon dioxide from oil and coal burning [Oct. 31]. Since then I often take the bus and turn off every unnecessary light in my apartment. The impending hotter climate should inspire Americans to practice conservation diligently...
...parking lot, a yellow school bus carrying students slowly pulled out. Through an open window, a Yale fan yelled at a friend and me, "Next year you and me, one-on-one. You suck. You one of them. You Harvard. I'm gonna get you next year...
...this Yale team which doggedly takes the bus to the practice field every weekday and lost every Saturday until last weekend will certainly be enshrined right up there with the 1-7 1940 and 1941 squads (which both lost to Harvard), make no mistake about it. No Yale team before this fall ever lost eight games in a row nine. If you include last year's loss at Harvard). No previous Eli squad has ever lost eight times in one season...