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Even before the snow and cold set in, it has become clear that the 9:50 and 10:00 a.m. shuttles are unable to service the student rush that used to be met by a fleet of five. Buses fill up so quickly during high-volume times that they often end up leaving over five minutes ahead of schedule, stranding latecomers. Students jostle each other to get inside. Many are forced to stand, precariously balancing breakfast items and coffee cups over the laps of their seated neighbors...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Defeat for Central Planning | 10/11/2000 | See Source »

According to Offner, PSLM members have sold more than 40 tickets to Nader's upcoming rally at the Fleet Center. Many of these, she said, were hawked--at $10 a pop--in front of the Science Center...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Among Students, Nader Commands Limited Enthusiasm | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

...HUPD maintains a fleet of around 10 marked Ford Crown Victoria patrol cars and one Chevrolet Blazer, four unmarked cars, one prisoner transport van, two motorcycles and a handful of bicycles...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just the Facts | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...sense of responsibility and guilt for the loss of the Kursk, he quickly shifted to an attack on those who had criticized the operation. In the forefront of the "defenders of the sailors," Putin noted with irony, were those "who had assisted in the destruction of the army, the fleet and the state," people with villas in Spain and the South of France. This was an unsubtle jab at two tycoons--political wheeler-dealer Boris Berezovsky and media magnate Vladimir Gusinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Moscow: The Needs of the Many | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

Instead of taking the "easy way out" and immediately firing commanders, Putin told viewers, he would work to restore "the army, the fleet and the country." He then laid out his own credo: "I will be with the army. I will be with the fleet. I will be with the people." The order in which he listed his priorities was probably not coincidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Moscow: The Needs of the Many | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

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