Word: camelizing
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...making the Federal Government, which required cities to buy American vehicles to qualify for subsidies, get out of the bus business. Its requirement for wheelchair capabilities, for instance, added to the weight of the new buses and lowered their fuel efficiency. "It was like trying to build a camel by regulation," says a transportation lobbyist. Many cities are renovating GM's 1959-model "new look" bus, long the mainstay of public transportation. Notes a Chicago transit manager: "They're reliable and pretty much all the bugs were out of them." Other cities, including Atlanta, Seattle, Louisville...
...city hearing examiner's recommendation that eviction permits be granted was the "straw that broke the camel's back," Cooper said. That verdict was forecast, though, in December when the battle finally climaxed with a Rent Board decision that Harvard should be allowed to convert the building...
...liquid balletic expressiveness, the finesse and harmony that is the hallmark of Russian pairs skating has been handed down intact to the latest heirs. Vorobieva and Lisovski took a comfortable lead after the short program, two minutes of compulsory jumps and lifts. Even a near collision on their dual camel spins (twirling on one leg with the other leg stretched out, arm tight against it, so that the body forms a T) during the free skating could not diminish their domination. "I was satisfied with the results," Lisovski allowed later, "but not with my skating. We can skate better." That...
Your stories on Ronald Reagan give one a new insight on the man and particularly his mode of recharging. No one need ever worry about the inner calm of a man who cherishes such a retreat for himself. But why did Mayor Koch appear in PEOPLE astride the camel with Reagan's living-room...
...minutes before. Now someone stretches up and says something to Hale, high in his red-painted auctioneer's pulpit, and Hale looks unsure whether to giggle or break down crying, and he clicks on the microphone and says: "Folks, man here bought himself a 7-ft. 6-in. camel a couple of hours ago, and he's only got a 7-ft. horse trailer to put it in, so what we're gonna do right now ..." It was promptly resold...