Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board the city's gleaming new subway for its first passenger run. Just past 5 a.m., the shiny silver-and-blue Metro cars, built at a cost of $600,000 each, whooshed into view. Marveled Mark Miller, a radio announcer who had risen at 3:30 to catch the inaugural trip: "It was a dream come true...
Buyers were quick to catch on to the manufacturing sleight of hand. Chevrolet sales slumped partly because drivers could slide into the seat of a comparable Oldsmobile or Buick for only a few hundred dollars more. Quality also suffered, since individual divisions did not have to take responsibility for the corporate clones. The X-cars have suffered an embarrassing number of recalls and face a Justice Department lawsuit...
...Alexander (3 hr. 10 min.) and R.W. Fassbinder's mammoth Berlin Alexanderplatz (15 hr. 21 min.). In the time it would take to watch just those two films, you could have seen all ten pictures nominated for the 1937 Oscar and still have had time left over to catch a Pete Smith Specialty and a couple of Mickey Mouse cartoons...
...third-period power plays and a penalty shot weren't enough to create the scoring the home team needed to catch the highly-rated Eagles, as it started 1984 with a 3-1 loss. It was Harvard's third straight setback in ECAC competition, evening its record at 4-4 I in conference play. And B.C. (12-2 overall, 7-2 in ECAC play) was just the first Crimson opponent in what shapes up as an especially difficult schedule for reading period--traditionally a rough stretch for Harvard. This weekend features an imposing road trip to St. Lawrence and Clarkson...
...many school managers across the country routinely invest their tax dollars, Pennsylvania districts have consolidated their revenues in order to negotiate top interest rates. Some states, Virginia among them, do not allow school districts to make their own investment decisions, but the idea of a pool is beginning to catch on. Michigan and Illinois are working with E.F. Hutton to set up an investment fund early in 1984. Comments James Betchkal, associate director of the Washington-based National School Boards Association, which is helping to organize the plan: "A lot of school districts are money poor, but very...