Word: hub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help it--she has to pull that Carter-Mondale leaflet out of the trash as she walks by. "Politics is a passion of mine," Lisa A. Rotenberg '81, says as she hands the leaflet to a woman. "I love campaigns. I love politics. I love being in the hub of things--it's either in your blood...
...149th Street, in the Hub, one of the South Bronx's two largest commercial districts, there's a traffic jam ten hours a day. Cars are double parked, and people mill around on a street as crowded as any in midtown-Manhattan. Fordham Road is even busier. The Alexanders and Loeman's department stores are jammed with frenetic bargain hunters...
...inching up for such high-value petroleum products as diesel fuel, naphtha and heating oil. The increase is slower than the breakneck pace that characterized the pay-any-price panic of 1979, when the spot cost of crude oil shot up from $13 to $40 per bbl. In Rotterdam, hub of Europe's volatile crude-oil spot market, small cargoes last week were selling for anywhere from $4 to $5 per bbl. above the long-term average rate of approximately $32 per bbl. that the 13-nation OPEC cartel is now charging...
Your neighbors on the T are members of a growing community of Soviet immigrants, the vast majority of them Jews, who have settled in the Hub area over the past six or seven years. They are part of an on-again-off-again diaspora of Soviet Jews, whose numbers rise and fall with each chill and thaw in Soviet-American relations...
...hub of strike life was a dirty brick building in the center of the sprawling shipyard. A press center inside issued journalists' credentials, and worker-translators wore yellow armbands indicating which foreign languages they spoke. In the conference hall, representatives of striking factories sat at four long tables. Tape recorders took down the proceedings, to be replayed for comrades back in other factories. From a corner table, women in white smocks distributed sausages, cheese and sandwiches...