Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costs only $53, plus $7.82 for a couchette berth, plus $13 for cooked-aboard dinner. Every Western European country has offices in the U.S. where the tourist can buy lower-price tickets in advance. Example: for only $115, the American who plans to visit Germany can buy a rail pass good for 16 days of unlimited travel...
...long skirts hold a silent vigil in the state capitol. The women, like many others, are waiting for the legislators to vote on the Equal Rights Amendment. ERA will die if not approved by 38 states before March 22,1979, and Illinois, the one Northern industrial state yet to pass the measure, could be the 36th. Ratification there would keep alive the amendment's slim chance of approval before the deadline. Even ERA supporters concede that defeat in Illinois would make it nearly impossible for them to persuade three other state legislatures to go along. In that case, the amendment...
...readily admits. But they were easy to pass in those days because there was much more optimism, not to say naivete, about solving the nation's problems, and a booming economy made the money available. "In the 1960s," says Califano, "all these social programs didn't seem to cost the American people anything because they were all making more real income. Today, when we increase our investment in one group of people, we are taking it away from some other group...
...auto accident on the way home from a party in Foster City, Calif. Coulter, now 28, claims that the car slammed into a bridge abutment because its driver, a young woman, had consumed "extremely large quantities" of beer at the party. Although the court did not pass on the merits of Coulter's $1 million damage suit against the host, it overturned a lower court's ruling that the state's civil liability law applied only to bars, restaurants and liquor stores, not partygivers. Said the majority: No one can serve booze "under conditions involving a reasonably foreseeable risk...
...curves, and short on the fancy moves. Just bedrock rock 'n' roll, the kind of good-natured badass music that keeps you dancing. It can get you a little teary, and get the blood jumping too, like maybe you ought to tear up a couple of seats and pass them up onstage to Bob Seger...