Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earned an estimated $500 million in 1984, up from $313 million in 1983. To reach that goal, Conrail cut its work force from 100,000 to 39,000, trimmed track mileage from 17,500 to 14,000 and turned over passenger lines to state authorities in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The company won major concessions from union workers, who earn an average of $40,000 a year...
...agent, expelled from the U.S. in 1969 after two tours at the mission, liked to brag suggestively about little matters he had "cleared up." One Sunday at lunch on the New Jersey Palisades in late 1965, he could not stop talking about New York's great blackout. "All those shining towers," he said, gesturing at the Manhattan skyline, "they look so strong, so tall, but they're just a house of cards. A few explosions in the right places and do svidaniya (goodbye). We're only beginning to realize how vulnerable this country really is." No one commented. Even...
Furthermore, last year's ECAC champion, who face Princeton Friday might in New Jersey, have now won 20 straight...
...thought was a sheltered life by planting herself in unpleasant situations. When her husband Allan received training as an army photographer, her inexperienced hand took up the camera. Her first subject was the bare lightbulb hanging from their ceiling. Later, when a dead whale washed onshore in New Jersey, she took a bus there to photograph the motionless white mass...
...this sort of corner-of-the-mouth satire. His research sometimes sticks out, but he has a perfect ear for punk talk, a hungry eye for sleaze and an eerie ability to get inside empty heads: "This ocean was different, the tourist believed, than the ocean up in New Jersey. Though it must be the same water because the oceans were all connected and the water would get different places." Madame Bovary on the boardwalk could not have said it better...