Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last car, and the construction crew worked feverishly over the Labor Day weekend, drilling and hammering past midnight, and pulling in double and triple overtime pay. (Authority officials picked the weekend to make the transition, when commuter use would be relatively light. In the interim, the MBTA provided free bus rides to and from Kendall Square...
...most fundamental rules of the air on which all the nations of the world, including the Soviet Union, depend in the busy, crowded skies of the jet age. "Attacking an unarmed civilian plane," said Republican Congressman Thomas F. Hartnett of South Carolina, "is like attacking a school bus...
...liberals and conservatives, the Administration mistook the public's disgust with red tape for hostility to all forms of Government regulation. Polls show that most Americans favor deregulation of industry, especially if it encourages competition. (For example, the Administration's deregulation in such economic areas as banking, bus transportation and telecommunications has provoked relatively little controversy.) But a Harris survey this year showed that 88% of Americans prefer even more stringent standards on clean air, and 91% either favor existing regulations on safety in workplaces or want those regulations made tougher. Failure to make the distinction between rules...
Even at the best of times driving a carmioneta-a pickup truck converted into a local bus-from the northern farming hamlet of San José de Bocay to the village of Jinotega, seven hours away, is a nerve-searing experience. The winding road runs through an area infiltrated by U.S.-supported contras who are waging a cat-and-mouse war along the Honduran border against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime. Although there have been contra ambushes before, last week's was particularly grisly...
Though the attackers made every effort to conceal their identities, suspicion immediately centered on fanatic Jewish settlers. The apparent motive: to obtain revenge for the murder of Aharon Gross, 18, an American emigrant who was stabbed three weeks earlier as he was waiting for a bus near the market in Hebron's old Jewish quarter. So far, no one has been arrested for Gross's murder, but witnesses said his assailants were Arabs...