Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe that the inflationary fever that raged during much of the 1970s has subsided. Says Kay Cooper, a receptionist in a Manhattan optometrist's office: "I don't see inflation coming down at all. It still costs a fortune just to use the subway and the bus." Adds New York Businessman Alfred Sandberg: "You feel that if you don't buy something today, tomorrow the price will...
...offer some of the best jobs in less-developed countries because they can pay two to three times more than the going local wage. They therefore attract the brightest workers, and that can determine the direction of economic development. Another prestige job in the Third World is that of bus driver. Reason: poor people in a carless society depend on them for transportation...
Usually, the impulse passes. The car gets packed and pointed back toward the old reality. The moment dissolves, like one of those instants when one falls irrevocably in love with the face of a stranger through the window as the bus pulls away...
Anthony Ulasewicz, 63, former New York City policeman and White House gumshoe whose street lingo spiced up Senate Watergate hearings. Arranging hush-money payments, he made so many secretive phone calls from booths that he wore bus driver's money changer on his belt. He called distributing the cash "getting rid of the cookies." Convicted of tax evasion. Given year's probation. Now lives in tiny town of Day (pop. 656) in woods of northern New York. Hunts, fishes, raises chickens ("Just for eggs-I never eat my chickens"). Seeking publisher for 367-page ghostwritten manuscript called Tony...
...southern Lebanese coast joined the attack by shelling the village of Ras el Rin and the Palestinian refugee camp at Rashidiyeh, near the Israeli border. Just outside Damur, south of Beirut, more than 20 mutilated bodies lay strewn across the road. On the route to Sidon, a civilian bus was struck by a bomb that killed 20 passengers and wounded 35 others...