Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ride the 45 miles out to Bridgewater once each week and for an hour and a half you teach a guy to read. Your first time down you wonder how some convict who has been labeled criminally-insane or sexually-dangerous is going to react to an occasional visitor from Harvard. You meet the guy, try to find something to talk about, administer a battery of standardized reading tests. At 9 p.m. you finish. You say good-bye to the guy you've tutored and don't know whether to smile, look sad, or even look at him. Then...
...that point, Detroit made a miscalculation. The auto executives found themselves struggling with soaring material costs for everything from steel to plastics just at a time when sales of big, high-profit cars were lagging. They decided to step up production of small cars and ride on their popularity. But partly to keep the industry's rate of return up, they moved to boost the profit margin on the compacts and subcompacts. Small cars were wrapped in expensive, highly profitable equipment that once was optional-special trim packages, power seats and windows-substantially raising the base price. The auto...
...FUTURE OF THE CAR. We are just not attuned to getting anywhere any other way than by automobile. Some people ride buses. Now trains are coming back-but it's a fad. This country developed in a particular way because of the automobile, and you can't just push a button and change...
...There's nothing like a long bus ride and getting nipped twice by identical scores." Lee said. "It was like seeing on old movie twice...
...ride should be long enough to "bore" the fencers, Coach Edo Marion said yesterday. "Hopefully enough to create anger that can be used against Princeton," he added...