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With ridership on commuter rail lines having increased 49 percent between 1983 and last fall, the MBTA's rail fleet is scheduled to grow to 248 cars by July, a 48.5 percent increase since last month...
While North America accounts for the vast majority of the world's cruising market, business is strong in other choice spots, from the Aegean Sea to the South Pacific. Even the Soviet Union has built a fleet of 27 ships, which carry mostly West European passengers on voyages in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Baltic regions. Few Soviets are allowed to travel on the ships because the purpose of the fleet is to earn Western currency...
...Reagan Administration, meanwhile, says it is willing to study a proposal by the Soviet Union to enforce the embargo with a U.N. naval blockade of the gulf. But the U.S. fears that the lengthy negotiations required to organize such a fleet may interfere with the undertaking of an embargo. Said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater of the Soviets proposal: "We'll sit down and talk about enforcement measures. But we are slightly suspicious of any measure that tends to increase their involvement and decrease ours." That sentiment was just one more reminder of the larger interests at stake...
...long into the shift, the three fleet forwards got a three-on-one breakaway with Brown back. Edmonton picked Brown apart with crisp passes, and scored. The Oilers capitalized on the sudden change in momentum and eventually won the game...
Sweeney Todd is, as the many reprises of the opening number tirelessly remind us, the infamous nineteenth century "demon barber of Fleet Street." Back in London after serving 15 years of a life sentence in Australia for a crime he did not commit, Sweeney (Jonathan Tolins) seeks revenge on corrupt Judge Turpin (Adam Wolman), who framed him in order to steal away Sweeney's wife. He starts up his barbershop again above the pie shop of his old landlady, Mrs. Lovett (Rhonda Edwards), who tells him that shortly after his exile, Sweeney's wife poisoned herself, and his infant daughter...