Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should be carefully noted," the newspaper further advised, "that rush-hour traffic into and out of Los Angeles is very much a part of the city; learning to accept this fact will ease some of the pain, for there is no getting around it: between the hours of 7 and 9 a.m. and 3:30 and 6 p.m., you will be 'stuck' if you happen to be in the wrong place." The local driver, according to the Times, "is professional, coldblooded, and no-room-for-error. As long as no one errs, the flow of traffic is rapid...
...hits the Santa Monica Freeway at rush hour. Currently, the rush-hour (What a misnomer!) speed on downtown freeways is 15 to 18 m.p.h., according to a study by the University of Southern California. By the year 2000 the speed is expected to drop to 5 to 8 m.p.h. There are 3.3 million commuters every morning and evening here, some 75% of them driving in cars by themselves. There were 500,000 cars in Los Angeles in 1924. By 1940 there were 1 million, and the region boasted it had one car for every three residents, while behind-the-times...
...dropped to a two-year low of $338 an ounce, as speculators dumped the precious metal to invest in dollars. In Chicago, commodities prices fell as well, further depressing goods as varied as soybeans and lumber. Since May, commodities prices have dipped nearly 9%, in part because of the rush to buy dollars...
Although electronic epistles have so far shown more promise than popularity, Federal Express hopes its entry will be a hit. Unlike services offered by rivals such as Western Union and MCI, ZapMail will not require customers to use computer keyboards to send messages. Instead, couriers will pick up and rush material to a Federal Express office, where clerks will feed it into a document scanner for transmission over land lines. At the receiving Federal Express office, a laser printer will spew out copies for couriers to deliver immediately. The firm even vows to give full refunds if documents are late...
...that 27 people had been arrested in a plot to plant bombs under five Arab buses in the West Bank. Shin Bet agents had infiltrated the group to the point where they even videotaped clandestine strategy sessions. Because the deadly devices were timed to explode at the height of rush hour, casualties would have gone into the hundreds. As the probe continued, officials concluded that they had arrested not just the men who had planned the bus infernos but those responsible for the attacks on the West Bank mayors and the students in Hebron...