Word: paged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four days ago, the Sox were leading the Yankees by six-and-a-half games. The Boston Herald splashed a huge number eight on the front page, standing for Boston's magic number. Any combination of Yankee losses and Sox wins that add up to eight would give Boston its second title in three years...
Stop the "T." Evacuate the city to Cape Cod. Tell the Globe and the Herald to not print any magic numbers on any page. Magic can turn back...
...bites aside, little that either contender is saying provides a fresh glimpse of what he might do in office. Bush's two major recent policy addresses -- on the environment and on foreign-policy goals -- were recycled versions of earlier speeches gussied up with new applause lines. Dukakis won front-page headlines for his innovative, if poorly detailed, proposal to allow college students to repay their loans through a small surcharge on their lifetime earnings. But the idea was not quite the policy breakthrough that the campaign claimed; Dukakis had already outlined the proposal in speeches last April...
...Kahan, a third-year law student, said the letters requested "just any kind of input a person felt like giving. It was pretty openended--not more than a half page long...
Houston's public bus service used to be so unreliable that a local newspaper featured front-page box scores listing the number of buses on the road, the number in the shop and the percentage of late arrivals (as high as 50%). Virtually every day some routes got no buses at all. To untangle the mess, Houston voters in 1978 approved a special 1% tax on retail sales to help pay for a modern transit system. Since then the city has spent $790 million to upgrade service, adding 789 new buses, 20 park-and-ride lots, 750 sheltered bus stops...