Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems devoid of the characteristic noise and bustle. There is relatively little automobile traffic. City buses lumber about, half-empty. Almost no one shops in the re-developed shopping plazas. And there are no guests in the castle-like Renaissance Center hotel complex, which stands over the Motor City like a gleaming caricature of "urban revitalization." Detroit is not thriving: it resembles nothing so much as an empty shell. And it is empty, too, of hope for the unemployed who line the streets, selling apples and bananas from pushcarts...
From its headquarters in New York City, AT&T controls assets of $137 billion, more than those of Exxon, General Motors and U.S. Steel combined, and more than the gross national products of all but 20 nations. A T & T's resources include 24,000 buildings, 177,000 motor vehicles and 142 million telephones, or eight out of every ten phones in the U.S. The company's 1 million employees make up almost 1% of the American work force, a level that no other company even approaches. It has 3 million shareholders, more than any other firm...
...little kids of the poem were the only children of Danny and Semadar Haran, for whom Hadara, now 15, used to babysit. Einat, 5, and Yael, 2, were both killed in April 1979, when terrorists entered Nahariya from the sea in a motor-powered dinghy and attacked a four-story apartment house. In one apartment they found Einat and her father, whom they took back to the beach. Danny they shot to death, and when Israeli forces approached, one of the terrorists picked up Einat by the feet and cracked open her head on a rock...
...firms that produced 200 products. As an Army Air Forces colonel in World War II, he won fame as the inventor of a "statistical control" system to keep track of the military's global resources. In 1946, he and nine Army colleagues moved to the financially ailing Ford Motor Co., where they were nicknamed the Whiz Kids...
Since 1979, when construction on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) Red Line extension began in Harvard Square, students have been bothered by early morning noise and residents have complained of continual disruption of pedestrian and motor traffic...