Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...round-trip truck and bus for space...
...round-trip reservations, going up and coming down intact, not once, but time and time again, if all goes well, reducing the cost of working in space and vastly increasing its possibilities. Columbia is designed to ascend like a rocket, orbit as an all-purpose freight truck and passenger bus, ward off melting re-entry temperatures with an armor of glazed silica tiles, then land like an airplane?or like an 80-ton glider...
...Hawaii time the night before, 19 swimmers, two managers and Bernal boarded a jam-packed World Airways flight bound for the mainland. Eleven hours and two stopovers later, the Crimson arrived in Newark. After securing a bus, Bernal selected five sleepy and very suntanned swimmers and headed for Providence. There the travelers joined five members of the Harvard squad who didn't make the training trip and gave Brown a 69-44 beating...
...tired Harvard team that got off the bus in Waterville. After a three-and-a-half hour ride and only a 40-minute break before they hit the ice, the skaters just weren't up to an hour of solid, grueling hockey. "We just didn't wake up in time for the game," coach Rita Harder said...
More than likely, the cuts in Sunday service will be restored; indeed, some politicians contend that the whole plan is merely a show to divert attention from other painful cutbacks in service. Some, already announced but largely ignored in the furor over Sunday service, include station closings, reduced bus service, and commuter rail cutbacks. While these cuts are not as drastic as the Sunday stoppage, they must not be allowed either. In a country as starved for energy as the United States, mass transit represents the best chance of cutting automobile...