Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black-market rate is up to , 18,000. A briefcase is needed to collect the exchange on a $100 bill -- unless the exchange is in small-denomination notes, when a suitcase might be more useful. "The Sandinistas have made all of us millionaires," jokes a vendor at the Masaya bus terminal in Managua, pocketing a 5,000-cordoba bill for two lemonades. "The trouble is, even millionaires can't make ends meet here...
...where the rhetoric has marched quickly away from reality. An aging Chevrolet Impala with a cracked windshield and an oil light that glows menacingly in the dark rattles down a potholed road. Bouncing headlights pick out clumps of stoic people waiting for buses that arrive infrequently and full. The bus fleet, local wisdom has it, has almost been run off the road because its mechanics are employed fixing the army's Soviet T-54 tanks. Many people resort to walking, and after dark, shadowy figures flit ghostlike through a heavy shroud of exhaust fumes created by engines vigorously protesting...
...many hours of work that, by the end of the week, they were worn out. The day before their last on the job, they missed a bus back to Harvard because they fell asleep at the Brighton busstop...
Road Trip: Transportation to Sunday's contest in Storrs, Conn., is still available through the men's soccer office (495-4549) or Harvard Sports Information (495-2206). A bus will leave from Quincy Square at 10 a.m., with the cost of transportation $10 per person...
Ticket prices are $6 for reserved seats, $4 general admission and $3 for students. Those interested in reserving a seat on the bus should contact the men's soccer office (495-4549) or Harvard Sports Information...