Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America back on the trains. Railroads are by far the most fuel-efficient form of passenger transportation, achieving nearly 10 times the number of passenger-miles per gallon as cars. Yet the U.S. is stuck with the pathetically inadequate and ineffecient Amtrak system, the rolling laughingstock of the industrial world. Despite large subsidies, Amtrak remains hamstrung by union featherbedding, bureaucratic stupidity, and the inability to compete with other modes of transport...
...Bush's assertion that nothing less than America's "way of life" is on the line, the critics reply that no vital U.S. interest is at stake. Buchanan has been leading the charge, arguing, "There are lots of things worth fighting for, but an extra 10 cents for a gallon of gas isn't one of them." Ted Galen Carpenter, director of foreign policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, cautions that "making the U.S. the guardian of global stability is a blueprint for the indefinite prolongation of expensive and risky U.S. military commitments around the world." Edward N. Luttwak...
These are the families whose entire household budgets shudder when the price of gasoline rises a dime a gallon; whose sons and daughters join the Army to pay for their schooling; whose jobs are most vulnerable when the economy crawls toward recession...
...strong marriage, happy kids, low expectations and high hopes. They have plenty of work ethic. What they do not have is enough money to live as they would like. It is these families whose entire household budgets shudder when the price of gasoline rises by a dime a gallon, whose sons and daughters join the Army to pay for their schooling, whose jobs are most vulnerable when the economy crawls toward recession. Savings and security are unaffordable luxuries; so are adequate health care, sufficient heat in the winter, a meal in a restaurant, a night at the movies...
Mull is a financial wizard. "I buy this for one year," she says, cradling a half-gallon jug of Palmolive liquid soap. She ducks back into the kitchen and brings out a half-gallon jug of molasses. "This is for six months. You make pancakes with it. I buy everything big." Her monthly budget is tightly knotted around fixed costs: $400 goes for rent, not including gas and electric bills; Lorena's school, Immaculate Conception, is $80 a month; $15 goes to Mervyn's department store for clothes bought earlier; food takes $40 a week; Mull's bus pass...