Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SNCC's most effective years were also marked by pragmatism. Its staff and volunteers organized to win limited and attainable goals such as the integration of bus stops and bathrooms and the right to vote. The organization was decentralized, its structure chaotic, its projects dependent on individual effort and initiative. But, for a while, anyway, it worked...
...Shuttle bus drivers and University officials this week entered the late rounds of a shadow-boxing match begun two weeks ago when some of the drivers threatened to strike for revisions in the new shuttle bus schedule and increased wages...
Between semesters, most Harvard students try to leave Cambridge to visit friends or relatives and unwind after exams. The last Saturday of intersession, co-captain Lauren Norton and the women's hockey team were outside of Cambridge, but they were on a bus bound for Ingalls Rink in New Haven, due to face off against Yale in an important Ivy League contest...
...handed back." Today the surplus is gone. To keep Wisconsin from going into the red in the next fiscal year, the tax-cutting Governor says he must raise the state's gasoline tax by 53% and scrap programs ranging from new highway construction to Milwaukee's student bus service...
...came from a $100 million settlement that he had negotiated with the Amoco division of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana in February 1980 for allegedly overcharging customers. Under the agreement, Amoco placed $71 million into a special claims fund and was supposed to refund $29 million to utilities, railroads, bus lines and other major patrons. After reimbursing its clients, however, Amoco had $4 million left over, so the company sent a check for that amount to Bloom's office...