Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parallel to new expressways, Chairman Ben Heineman gambled $50 million on modernizing the Chicago and North Western's commuter service-and won. Patronage is now climbing by 5% a year, and commuter profits this year should reach $2,000,000. Some long-haul travelers still prefer stylish comfort to speed. Bookings have risen for the Atlantic Coast Line's Florida Special since it put in movies and television, hired hostesses to give fashion shows, threw in free champagne and cigars with candlelit dinners...
...will probably have to pay more. Many experts feel that low standards of transportation have been the result of artificial low-fare policies, frequently prompted by political considerations. Instead of driving more people to the auto-and the traffic jams-slightly higher fares should make possible a comfort and convenience that commuters will feel are worth the price. So that fares do not rise out of hand, however, transit systems will need to embrace the cost savings of automation as quickly as possible. And, says Alan Boyd. Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, "there should be a maximum reliance...
...Many. Thus ended a long, sometimes bitter tug-of-war that began 31 months ago, when Castello Branco declared war on corruption, graft and "anti-revolutionaries." Too often for congressional comfort, that label came to include legislators themselves, who found their mandates canceled. Not until last year did Congress finally stand up to the President; in a rare show of unity, it refused to vote Castello Branco sweeping new powers-including the right to close down Congress. So Castello Branco simply put the rules into effect by decree, and for good measure dissolved Brazil's 13 political parties...
...duty, romance, singleness of purpose and accomplishment as he has. Born in the farming town of Sarrat, in Ilocos Norte province on Luzon's craggy northwest slopes. Marcos grew up under a code of spartan self-reliance. His father, Mariano Marcos, was a stern, humorless politician who refused comfort to any of his four children if they cried over injuries. "Don't start a fight," he advised brusquely, "until you know...
These questions seek not an answer but a reassurance; not truth, but comfort. McKissick answered in kind: "I was three years old, and pushed to the back of the bus. I wanted to watch the motorman like the other kids. Why couldn't I? I hadn't done anything. I wanted to know...