Word: chira
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...studies, HSR would generate up to $42 million a year from an annual ridership of almost 3 million (or 4 million if tourists are included) vs. up to $36 million in operating costs. As for the state's inability to provide commuter lines to complement HSR, authority chairman Lee Chira calls it a chicken-and-egg debate: establishing one kind of line, he insists, "will lead to building the other. Since federal dollars are paying for the high-speed, doing this first is a no-brainer...
...Chira adds, “Nick has always been interested in places that are more remote, less explored...
...economics beat reporter in the mid-1980s, and later as a foreign correspondent and columnist traveling to over 100 countries, Kristof has displayed a “gift for getting to the heart of the matter,” says Susan D. Chira ’80, foreign editor of the Times and a former Crimson president...
Marsh’s right-hand man, co-captain Dennis Chira ’05, also attributed the team’s success to a great Sunday performance that came in spite of wet weather and tough odds...
...legs were just dead at the beginning of the game and the ground was wet and muddy,” Chira said. “Dartmouth outplayed us in the first half. Going down by that many goals in that kind of weather can be tough. But in the half time huddle, we looked at each other and got focused. We knew that we wanted it, and had been fighting too hard to lose...