Word: grime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passengers a day ride the city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front of onrushing trains; and to top it off, a projected $200 million deficit for the coming fiscal year. Faced with these losses, and trying to preserve a 500 fare, the Metropolitan Transportation...
...devices basically resemble the oil burners in any homeowner's basement. But to remove the sludge, the furnaces use either filters or vaporizers, which heat the fuel so that the dirt and grime drop to the bottom...