Word: remains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House had called for a 43% reduction in Amtrak routes in order to trim the $600 million annual subsidy. Then came the gas shortage, and Amtrak ridership jumped 24% in June over the year before. So the Senate voted to pare the system by just under 20%. To remain in service, a train must average 150 passengers per mile and lose no more than 7? a mile per passenger. Among the trains that will survive: the New York-New Orleans Southern Crescent, considered the best passenger train in the nation; the Washington-Montreal Montrealer...
...spite of the worldwide crescendo of concern for them, Indochina's refugees remain the victims of acts of God and man. Though President Carter dispatched a five-ship Seventh Fleet task force to pick up whatever boat people it could find, the Navy rescue mission was temporarily halted after twelve days, when the 150 m.p.h. winds of Typhoon Hope whipped the South China Sea into a cauldron of death. Some 443 Vietnamese aboard three junks barely made it to Hong Kong after being pushed back to sea from Macao by Portuguese officials the day before the storm...
Even such a fractional rise will irritate inflation-squeezed Americans. Nonetheless, higher exports of U.S. farm products are the best hope for reducing the nation's trade deficit, which is caused largely by oil imports. Since America's appetite for foreign oil will remain intense, it is necessary to sell more food abroad even if that means slightly higher supermarket bills at home...
Windows in the common rooms and apartments were not weathertight, the tenants' report said. One tenant, who wished to remain anonymous, reported that her windows had blown in on her. The stairways were "not in good repair." Lorraine Irritano, a tenant, sprained her ankle walking down them. The "dwelling was infested with cockroaches," the tenants' report said...
...look like cowboy boots but carry a city slicker price tag: $200. A current fashion at roller rinks is old skate keys color-plated with disco colors and hung around the neck with gold chains or satin ribbons. A charming bit of nostalgia for those whose hearts (and pocketbooks) remain with the old metal skates of childhood...