Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swaziland, where jobs are equally rare. Leaving their families behind, the miners spend most of the year living in cramped dormitories and working for wages that average $50 a week. Come mid-December, tens of thousands stream out of the camps and head home for the holidays, jamming bus stations, train platforms and airports to spend a month or so with their loved ones...
...Also, at this point people have to walk to welfare which is six blocks away or to Social Security which is two bus rides. To have everything at one spot would be ideal, said Cyr, who is lobbying for a single "inter-agency" to serve all of homeless people's needs in a single building...
...building is only a seven-minute drive from the main MGH campus and the two areas will be connected by a shuttle bus, Bander said...
Parity, however, does not true equality make. Renovations fail to address the problems which Quad residents have to deal with every day. The big one is distance. No one enjoys waking up 15 minutes early in order to brave a long walk in sub-freezing weather. The unreliable shuttle bus system--which boasts twisted, slow routes and infrequent departures--does little to ease the problem. Because University life--socially, extracurricularly, and academically--is centered around the river, separate but equal is inherently unequal...
...Quad's own private health club, is already a step in the right direction. So is the hamburger option, available only at the Quad. But racketball and beef can't do the trick alone. It will also take substantially more spacious rooms and better shuttle bus service. If buses were to have more direct routes and were to run twice as often as they presently do, the Quad would only be half as far away from the Yard...