Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagine yourself as a dining hall worker in the Union during the lunch-hour rush. Class lets out, and hundreds of freshman pour into the building, scrambling for a place in line, crowded together, bumping into one another, talking, shouting...
Yesterday, workmen painted guard rails and cleaned the roadside for the million people expected to line the route to Hachioji...
Warning of "runaway growth" in state spending, the influential House Democrat offered a pared-down budget with a bottom line of $12.3 billion in direct appropriations, compared to the $12.87 billion proposed last month by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
Senate Ways and Means Chair Patricia McGovern, who last month urged the governor to withdraw his $1 billion proposed increase, gave Voke credit for presenting a spending plan more in line with the current "fiscal reality...
...truth is that talk-show hosts only succeed in their efforts when the crusades they support are in line with popular opinion. The role that talk radio played in stuffing Congress' raise and in repealing the state seat belt law through a referendum are good examples of this. But when a host simply belabors some quirky point or another, the callers do not respond, and the issue is quickly dropped...