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Then they announce the Star Spangled Banner and everybody is up and singing it. I want to stay in my seat and hide but I have to get up. The guys next to me are passing the joint around. I look over the rail, I am so high, and so afraid of heights, why didn't they give me that ringside seat? The bastards, the fucking bastards...
...everyone agrees that inflation is a grave problem, why is it so difficult to stop? One reason is that while people like to rail against rising prices, many also derive some handsome benefits from it. They have in effect become a constituency for inflation. Says M.I.T.'s Lester C. Thurow. a member of the TIME Board of Economists: "Suppose you told small businessmen that you could wave a magic wand and bring the inflation rate to zero. They would think about it for a minute and say no. They have made some fixed commitments in loans and inventories that...
...cuts in Sunday service will be restored; indeed, some politicians contend that the whole plan is merely a show to divert attention from other painful cutbacks in service. Some, already announced but largely ignored in the furor over Sunday service, include station closings, reduced bus service, and commuter rail cutbacks. While these cuts are not as drastic as the Sunday stoppage, they must not be allowed either. In a country as starved for energy as the United States, mass transit represents the best chance of cutting automobile...
...briefly shut down when railway workers and the government clashed over how to distribute $6.3 million in pay raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike . . . could affect Poland's national and defense interests." Translation: Do not fool around with rail links to East Germany, home of 19 Soviet divisions and the front line of Warsaw Pact defenses...
...State Department of Public Utilities (DPU) also announced yesterday that it had arranged for alternative service for at least some of the 35,000 rail commuters who would be standed by the strike. The DPU said 360 buses owned by private firms would be available if needed, beginning on a limited basis today...