Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remained in Afghanistan and worked tirelessly to galvanize support. He has managed to mobilize virtually all 100,000 inhabitants of the valley, while collecting his own taxes, running his own schools and organizing his own food-rationing scheme. He has even used captured Soviet trucks to establish daily bus service in the valley. Massoud is also prudent enough to avoid needless risks. He travels with four gun-wielding bodyguards and packs a 9-mm automatic under his jacket. In order to elude the KhAD, he sleeps in a different house each night...
...size of an award is influenced by many factors-for one, the jury's perception of who will be paying. In suits brought against subway or bus authorities by crime victims, says Chicago Attorney Philip Corboy, "jurors recognize that it's their own tax dollars that pay for the award." And a juror's financial status may matter. Says New York's Moran: "The banker in Westchester won't give you a nickel, while Bronx jurors will give you the courthouse...
...other students put the issue of student security on the administration's agenda. The University responded by creating the College Security Committee, a group of administrators and students who have published pamphlets on rape and security awareness and issued recommendations on issues such as lighting on campus and shuttle-bus scheduling...
...pattern started early Rains stretched the Crimson's league-opening road trip to Princeton and Navy into a nightmarish marathon busride from Cambridge to Princeton to Annapolis to Princeton and finally back home. The result sixteen hours on a bus, a rain-forced tie with Navy and a loss to a rested Princeton squad...
...bore a resemblance to an awkward freshman mixer. But for these post-freshmen, having to line up, steer-like, in black tie and gowns to board yellow school buses to take them to the Park Plaza was probably made less noxious by the sign in one of the bus windows: "Very Important People...