Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Promoting mass transit in Dallas, where the car is king, is something like selling straw hats in winter. This month, though, the city's bus service began testing a ploy to lure new customers. Riders drop off their dirty laundry in the morning at a bus stop heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair...
...dense fog hung over Kilkenny's main street as a cold but patient crowd waited an hour for their candidate. When Fianna Fail Leader Charles Haughey, 61, finally appeared, neither damp nor gloom could muffle the cheers. Jumping from his car and springing into his campaign bus, the gray-haired Haughey apologized for his tardiness, then pledged, "It'll take more than fog to stop Fianna Fail this time around...
...Angeles finding out about my little mistake. I could hear Gary saying, "I was walking in Cambridge last week and this Harvard kid, who looked about as coordinated as a stalagmite, slipped on the ice, flipped six times, and swan dived into the wind-shield of a passing bus." So I cautiously kept my mouth shut...
Cambridge proposes now to make room for a stop across from the Sheraton Commander Hotel. What's the point? Once you walk all the way to the Commander, you're just about at the Quad anyway. Cambridge may as well decide to declare the entire shuttle bus route illegal...
Trips to the Kennedy School, for one thing, would be a thing of the past. God only knows where Kennedy School students take the shuttle bus. To the Square? Who would rather wait for a shuttle than walk three blocks? To the B-School? Also not very far. To the Quad? The way the shuttle system is set up now, a journey from the K-School to Currier House can take up to 42 minutes, not including waiting time...