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Superficially, at least, the most important disarmament negotiations in history have come to resemble that eight-hour round-trip train ride: they have covered a lot of ground without really seeming to get very far. Though the talks began with hopeful signals, the only thing the two sides have definitely agreed on to date is the need to improve the Washington-Moscow hot line to enable officials to find out quickly whether an unidentified missile has been fired accidentally by the other superpower - or deliberately by China. Reflecting concern about the future of the talks, the cooly patient U.S chief...
AUTOS emit the bulk of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Under the new rules, clean air means a maximum nine parts of CO per million parts of air during an eight-hour period. Hydrocarbons are limited to .24 p.p.m. for a maximum of three hours...
...Haymarket in Chicago, police broke up a peaceful rally by the Knights of Labor to protest the murder by police several days before of four union men who had been striking for an eight-hour day. As the police went sweeping through the crowd, a bomb exploded. Chaos developed: police opened fire on the demonstrators. Sixty-seven police were wounded and seven died; casualties among the demonstrators were three times that. Police blamed anarchists for the bombing, and to prove it, they planted dynamite in their homes before they arrested them. The anarchists said that the bomb was thrown...
...from being a let-down, my first night set up its own unrealistically high level of expectations. The rest of my first two weeks of "OJT" (or on-the-job-training) were pretty slow by comparison. But only by comparison: an eight-hour tour of duty on the four-to-twelve shift, just about anywhere in Washington, goes by mighty fast...
...tendency to flip the bird right through that dirty window to Syracuse. Sure it was immature, but even if we're only young once we can be immature forever. And the immaturity of the act was so clearly outweighed by its emotional appropriateness. Besides, how much can an impending eight-hour bus trip enhance your perception of good taste? So I flipped the bird...