Word: queueing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK the air breathes back at you. Along 45th St., in the heart of the theater district, the limousines queue up at the curb like a funereal parade. As if staged by some cynical scenarist, a drunk's reflection appears in the shiny black of one of the cars. He ambles slowly, his image distorts as it sweeps over the doors, door handles, smoked windows and tail lights of one limo and forms again on the next, moving down the line until it drops off, lost in the gutter. Across from the Royale Theater, where a golden marquee has promoted...
...keeping Radcliffe separate, lies in the prominence an independent Radcliffe can give to women's needs both within and without the University. "Women's research is low on Harvard's totem pole, but we can go to the Ford, Carnegie and Lilly and be the first on the queue," Wolfman says. In other words, Radcliffe's separate voice with the government and with corporations gives it more clout in seeking funds for women's needs that would get buried in any Harvard dossier...
...panic, scrambling to buy every last drop available. Lines as long as eight blocks have formed at those gas stations still open; motorists have waited three hours or more to fill up. At some stations, drivers who rose groggily at dawn to hunt for gas have had to queue up behind long lines of cars parked and locked by people who had left them there overnight. Fights with guns, knives and broken beer bottles have erupted in the lines. In Los Angeles a male motorist deflated the tires of a car that cut into line ahead of him, then beat...
...several of them as fuming vacationers waited for gasoline in lines that sometimes stretched for blocks. In California, where drivers are now lining up before dawn and service station operators grant appointments like doctors, a customer at a San Francisco self-service pump jumped to the head of the queue, then stabbed a man in line behind him who tried to protest. In Miami, some drivers tank up and roar off without paying when attendants turn their backs...
...Clifton Garvin Jr., chairman of Exxon: "It is our belief that we should not buy oil at present high spot market prices." Others do not seem so confident. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell, a major customer of Iranian crude before the ouster of the Shah, was back in the loading queue for a new supertanker cargo at an undisclosed price...