Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, on the way home for a funeral, I was lucky enough to find a whole half-car to myself. Curling up on a seat (a 5'11" person can curl up on those seats only to a limited degree due to the immobile plastic armrest, cleverly placed to minimize human contact), I began to read a book for Gov 10. Now any jock can tell you that the readings for that course are fairly heavy, requiring a great deal of concentration. I was really getting into it by the time the train wheezed into Route 128, and then...
...most tortuous Amtrak adventure possible--a ten-hour ride to Utica, N.Y., to visit a friend at a nearby college. If you figure that the distance from Boston to Utica is about 300 miles, and that the train ride is ten hours (as opposed to five by car), it's easy to deduce that you're trucking along at the estimable rate of 30 m.p.h. Any way you cut it, the company you choose will probably begin to wear a little thin...
Coffee drinkers, a minority among tea-drinking Russians, suffered most. The price of a pound soared from $2.62 to $13. Gasoline doubled, to $1.30 per gal., and 4 million private car owners will also pay 30% more to get those autos serviced. Gold-jewelry prices leaped 60%, though the cost of first-time wedding rings will be partly rebated to encourage marriages...
There is every reason for a thorough inquiry. U.S. automakers, especially Ford, are stepping up their investigation of these materials as an alternative to steel in a new generation of lighter cars that will burn less fuel. Ford President Lee Iacocca says that the composites will cut by 600 kg. (1,300 lbs.) the weight of a prototype car planned...
...group, the North Cambridge Planning Team, also opposes the building of a proposed 2000-car parking garage in the Alewife Brook Parkway area...