Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dallas 14, Philadelphia...
...least the cool fun. Garp's trusted friend is the transsexual Roberta Muldoon, formerly Old Number 88; the crack-backing, pass-catching Robert Muldoon, star tight-end for the Philadelphia Eagles. When Roberta finally dies, there is a moment of silence before the Eagles take the field. "She had a great pair of hands," the announcer intones reverently...
President Carter did an excellent job at the Camp David summit [Oct. 2] getting Sadat and Begin to bargain. It is now up to the Arab and Israeli worlds to accept the agreement, to make it work and to keep peace throughout the Middle East. James Palmer Philadelphia...
...only half a dozen of their 287 seats in the House, a bleak prospect for the Republicans in an off-year election. In much of the country, indeed, many key issues are purely regional ? motorboat restrictions in Minnesota's Boundary Waters canoe area, a city charter revision in Philadelphia, a referendum on homosexual teachers in California ?yet the money question is not only the dominant national issue but also the principal local one. And although the national temper is by no means so angry as is sometimes reported, it seems to be skeptical, self-centered and mistrustful...
...largest rail system, Conrail has annual revenues of $3.3 billion, 90,000 employees and 34,000 miles of track crisscrossing the Northeast, stretching west to Missouri and north to Canada. Though most of its business is freight, it also carries 360,000 commuters each weekday to New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. For all these superlatives, Conrail continues to hemorrhage money because its equipment was in worse shape and its labor force was more featherbedded than almost anyone in Washington had suspected...