Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western commercial banks, such as Citibank, debtor nations had to impose harsh austerity measures to garner capital. Austerity measures entail raising taxes and reducing expenditures, very often by slashing the budgets of state-owned industries, lowering the subsidies of government provided products and raising the prices of bus fares and other state-run services...
...event last week should jolt all, whether Black, white or member of another minority, out of complacency about the implications of racism. Whatever exactly happened to two Black students who were taken off a shuttle bus and searched by police last week, the Black community has shown outrage at what they consider racist behavior on the part of Harvard and Cambridge police. Their response is merited by the larger systemic problem of which this incident appears only to be a possible example...
WHAT exactly happened to two Black Harvard students around 9 p.m. last Tuesday night remains muddled. Witnesses say the pair had run to catch a University shuttle bus when, upon boarding, several police cars blocked the van and a Black police officer shined a flashlight in their faces and ordered them to get off. The pair were then searched without explanation and, after officers found nothing, were left without notice of why they were stopped, the students...
...board demanded a feasibility study of Arcata's proposal in three weeks. "That was war," recalls Gearheart. Such studies normally cost thousands of dollars and take months to produce. But three weeks later, after Gearheart wrote and volunteers made copies all night long at city hall, a Greyhound bus $ took the study away at dawn. The board promptly rejected it. Allen, Gearheart and Councilman Hauser spent nearly two years flying to regional meetings to counter further state objections while they appealed. Finally, the city, through some adroit politicking, won permission from state officials for a pilot project...
...tried really hard," said Megan Todd, the club's president. "It would have been such an opportunity for the women's club, but it wasn't feasible. We didn't have enough money to rent the bus and there's no one over 25 to sign for us and drive us there...