Word: busful
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After walking Tobin, Mankiw rouses his 14-year old daughter so that she can catch the 7:00 a.m. bus. He says his daughter enjoys math and history. “I always took that as a sign that she may be a future economist,” Mankiw says...
...YORK—As students streamed into New York City for the holidays, many found their trek home significantly delayed and complicated by the transit strike declared early in the morning at the beginning of break. Over 30,000 bus and subway employees walked off from their jobs on Dec. 20, effectively crippling the city’s transportation network for nearly three days. The workers’ union reached an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Dec. 22 and agreed to return to work.But as the strike began with no immediate resolution in sight, the city fell...
...were turned away at the last minute due to a lack of luggage space. After the shuttle apparently allowed students without tickets to board at the Quad, some students who had purchased their tickets in advance through the Harvard Box Office could not get a place on the packed bus. Frank L. Washburn ’08, one of these disappointed students, quickly sent out an e-mail over the Quincy House open list sarcastically entitled “I love the UC,” which explained what had happened to him in biting detail...
...answer was always simple: "Are they poor?" The motor lodge's meeting room was dotted with coal miners, some of whom braved fierce criticism from Appalachian rivals, and one white participant, Peggy Terry, admitted being raised in a Kentucky Klan family. After moving to Montgomery during the bus boycott, she had gone once on a lark to see "that smart aleck nigger come out of jail," and the actual sight of King buffeted by a mob had angered her. Now Terry kept a few black friends in the Jobs Or Income Now group from uptown Chicago's poor white district...
...quake, the mountain valleys of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir were off-limits to outsiders. Called Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir) by the Pakistanis, the area was cordoned off by the army because, in the decades-long conflict with India for control of Kashmir, Azad was an unofficial war zone. The bus stations and grungy hotels of Muzaffarabad swarmed with secret police on the prowl for unwelcome strangers such as journalists, foreign diplomats and Indian spies...