Word: rib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front of onrushing trains; and to top it off, a projected $200 million deficit for the coming fiscal year. Faced with these losses, and trying to preserve a 500 fare, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority turned down...
...fierce, feared Caribs are a virtually extinct race. A small colony of the Indians, now mixed with other bloods, survives on Dominica. The Caribs gave their name to the Caribbees, as the Elizabethans called the Caribbean, which thus should properly be pronounced Cari-bee-an, not Ca-rib...