Word: rails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their faces, are film from heaven. Never in the past have the Republicans had available such a record -- but they are past masters at exploiting the revulsion such travesties spark. The G.O.P. has been running tough-on-crime commercials since the riots of the 1960s first permitted them to rail against permissiveness as they played to white America's nightmares. Twenty years before Willie Horton, the 1968 Nixon campaign ran an ad in which a white woman, her purse gripped firmly in hand, hurried down an empty city street as an announcer said, "Freedom from fear is a basic right...
...while some student politicians strictly conform to the new rules, others rail against the system...
...trained by walking back and forth to classes but didn't give much thought to specifics until I saw a map of the route in the Globe on Saturday. I had planned on taking the subway to wherever the race started, but I learned that even the commuter rail doesn't get out there. There is a shuttle bus that leaves from Copley, but I didn't know that then, and I was trying to calculate what a twenty-five mile cab fare would cost when a friend told me that her father, who was running, would drive...
Obviously it meant war. No momentary lapse of reason would damn us to the dank labyrinths underneath that depressing medieval castle. We would rail against the grippe of German philosophy and black turtlenecks. We would extinguish smoking. Vegetarians (and other radicals) would convert, or die at our hands. The Bright Clothes Coalition was born...
...complete blueprints, which are scheduled be released next week, will also outline major extensions of subway and commuter rail lines as well as bus and car pool lanes...