Word: bus
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...elderly too were endangered. They were often dependent upon the city's social and health workers, who traveled by bus or subway to visit them. In some cases, hospitals had to admit old people as patients. Doctors were fearful especially about diabetics who normally were given injections of insulin in their homes. Last week these people had to walk to hospitals for treatment...
...more than 15 years, the P.L.O. has waged a war of terrorism against Israel, and the list of atrocities is long. One bitterly remembered example: the March 1978 bus massacre in which 38 Israelis died. Terrorist attacks directed against targets in Europe have largely ceased, as the P.L.O. has mounted a diplomatic offensive for recognition and has transformed itself, in effect, into a government in exile with a "legislature" (the council), a "Cabinet" (the executive committee) and 82 offices around the world. The 100-member council, which meets twice a year, includes Palestinians from every walk of life...
...sense to hold every city in the Commonwealth to the same spending standard. As Sullivan points out, if Cambridge bordered a wealthy suburb, and each had $100 million worth of property, each would be able to spend the same amount of money. Cambridge, however, has to provide subsidized housing, bus kids to integrate its schools, run low-cost hospitals, and fight high crime rates, while the suburb faces no crises much larger than where to build the Olympic-size swimming pool...
...cups when anyone enters. A slammed door, an auto exhaust backfiring, the passing of a military vehicle, a ringing phone, the clumsy crash of trays or pots in a café -any of these sounds turns eyes nervously, stops conversations. People do not loiter in the streets, except at bus stops and around food stores...
...ironies of Owens' life are two-fold. Owens said upon his return from the Olympics that Americans had over-emphasized Hitler's refusal to shake his hand. After all, he added, in his own country Owens had to sit in the back of the bus. Ultimately, he said he was not considered an American athlete but a Black person. Owens' tragic death from lung cancer comes at a particular touchy time for the United States as president Carter and the Olympic Committee debate whether the country should enter the games scheduled for Moscow this summer...