Word: rails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hole in the ice while he was still alive. Finally they sped past Patrolman Leonard Miller's squad car three times, until he gave chase and stopped them. They shot Miller dead at the side of the highway. After their conviction for his murder, Travaglia leaned over a courtroom rail and asked Prosecutor Tim Geary: "Are you happy? I'll be back...
...each that it would not allow the other to establish a base on North Korean territory. For the past two years, however, North Korea has allowed Soviet merchant ships and tankers to use its year-round port of Najin and from there to transport petroleum and other supplies by rail to Vladivostok when that city's harbor is closed by ice. A top South Korean official notes that this kind of co operation would have been "unthinkable only a few years ago and therefore at least symbolically worrisome." Symbolism aside, it helps the Soviets support their expanded military activities...
...severely tested as Congress grapples with Reagan's plan to end all federal subsidies for the operation of mass-transit systems by 1985 and to cut capital grants by $270 million in 1982. Some Amtrak officials gloomily predict that the result will be the end of a national rail system by 1985. More immediately, Amtrak expects to have to stop running eight commuter trains daily between New York City and Philadelphia, putting thousands of people back into cars at a time when the nation is trying to conserve on energy. Without federal help, New York's deteriorating, deficit...
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...