Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start of another working day, and Homo sapiens steps out of his apartment building into the roar of rush hour. He picks his way through the traffic and arrives at the corner just in time to watch his bus pull away. Late for work, he opens his office door and finds the boss pacing inside. His report was due an hour ago, he is told; the client is furious. If he values his job, he had better have a good explanation. And, by the way, he can forget about taking a vacation this summer. The man eyes a paperweight...
LAIER when Robert Kennedy decided to join the fray, he would ask Lowenstein to shift to his camp. Torn between friendship and respect for Kennedy and his commitment to back McCarthy, Lowenstein said no Kennedy retreated to the back of the bus on which the group was riding, and scribbled Lowenstein a note. "For A1, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us," it read. "They did not yet see ... that if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then abide, the huge world will come round to him. From his friend...
...society that pays bus drivers more than teachers deserves a few generations of illiterates...
...toward the National Assembly, black-uniformed riot police armed with plastic shields, bullet-less carbines and tear gas panicked and began forcing the demonstrators back with truncheons. Undeterred, 8,000 medical students later staged a sit-in while others blocked traffic, tore up construction material and smashed a police bus. With such skirmishes continuing throughout the week, the outbursts became the most widespread since May 1968, when rioting students rocked the autocratic government of President Charles de Gaulle and virtually paralyzed the nation...
Prins now has a new plan to turn bus deregulation into still more profits. Last week Jefferson began offering new bus companies a package of services, ranging from the financing and maintenance of buses to advertising, promotion and accounting, to help them get started. Prins' fee: up to 15% of profits...