Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Major dailies regularly rail against any attempts by the government to influence the content of their issues. The analogy of a wall that constitutionally stands between church and state has been appropriated by the press to explain what the First Amendment means...
BOSTON--The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority plans to expand the network of commuter rail lines in and out of Boston by the year 2000, carrying as many as 80 percent more riders than...
...miles southeast of Manila. At night she prays hard, begging for protection against disasters that may strike at her, at her city, at her country. But the troubles keep coming closer. Two months ago rebels of the Communist New People's Army blew up four strategic bridges, severing rail lines between Naga and Manila. Soon after, the army escalated its war with the N.P.A., further disrupting the local economy. Then the market where San Buenaventura sold kalamansi burned to the ground. Crossing herself, the fruit vendor offers a prayer for President Corazon Aquino. "Cory is our guiding light," she says...
Congressmen rail against the Pentagon budget in the morning, and then in the afternoon make it clear that the military base in their district must not be closed. Leadership at that level finds it hard to decide between the general abstract and the personal local...
...really departing from them: they had a flat solid background plane from which the bright templates sprouted as figures on a ground, and however "wild" the color seemed, it was always anchored within the coordinates of collage or, at least, given the enormous size of pieces like Inaccessible Island rail, 1976, of screw-bolt-and-bracketage. Stella's 3-D paintings all descend from constructivism, and one soon realizes that they mark the end of its tradition with a barrage of fireworks: there is something funereal as well as celebratory about the sight. It seems improbable that anyone (other, perhaps...