Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprised at how much time the kids needed," says McCarthy, "how much I didn't know. Even now, the kids still miss the bus, and I've got to take them to school. There's never enough clean clothes. There's just too much for one person...
...side of the road, phoned McCarthy and asked: "When's the meeting?" Now, six months later, the meeting is every Tuesday night, when 20 to 30 single dads gather, often at McCarthy's ranch-style home on Humboldt Hill. They include doctors, students, mechanics, a bus driver, a television producer, a few men on welfare and a couple of small businessmen. Says Ron Bricker, father of five, a burly television programmer: "You can't usually sit down with another guy to say, 'Gee, what are your thoughts on diaper rash...
Byrne's newest crisis is the virtual bankruptcy of the Regional Transportation Authority, which runs the Chicago-area bus and rail system. Byrne needs help from the state government, but she is not being conciliatory. If necessary, she says, the city is prepared to absorb the R.T.A. "as another branch of city government." A similarly defiant attitude during a transit crisis two years ago cost the system its state operating subsidy and the legal principle of equal treatment with state highways. The resulting deficit was met via a 20% increase in the city sales...
...their bare hands and blowing tanks out of their path with about as much breath power as an ordinary mortal uses to douse a candle. The final confrontation with Superman is a barroom brawl on a delightfully gigantic scale. Instead of heaving furniture at one another, they toss a bus back and forth. And when one of the combatants gets thrown, the trajectory is measured in city blocks. In short, there is wit, even a sort of weird plausibility, in the action sequences that was not present in the first film. Since the major change in the credits...
...respected." Coles serves on the board of directors of the Lyndhurst Foundation. a University of Alabama-connected philanthropic organization that has sponsored many health care programs in the South and is now branching out into education. He "found a connection," and over spring vacation Lazar took a 24-hour bus ride from Chicago to Birmingham to meet this stranger...