Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike threatened to spill over into a union sympathy action against as many as 12 commuter railroads around the country, which could create rush-hour havoc Monday morning, especially in the New York metropolitan area. Strikers planned picketing at commuter railroads and received assurances no rail workers would cross their lines...
...narrow questions as whether the U.S. should help Japan build its own fighter plane rather than buy an American design. But the reviews are going slowly, and the absence of a Pentagon chief to give military input could stretch them out for additional weeks or even months. Meanwhile, the rush of events may not wait. Said a State Department official: "We are going to pay a big price for sticking with Tower...
...Lauhala Point and a view right into the maw of the active volcano Kilauea. This jaunt is not for the faint of heart or weak of knee. When the tree line below suddenly drops away, leaving the swaying copter to swoop deep into an amphitheater of waterfalls, even the rush of peaceable New Age music injected through the passenger headphones may fail to tranquilize a white-knuckle flyer...
Imagine yourself as a dining hall worker in the Union during the lunch-hour rush. Class lets out, and hundreds of freshman pour into the building, scrambling for a place in line, crowded together, bumping into one another, talking, shouting...
Countless problems could derail Baker at State. Third World debt, coming to terms with Marxism in Central America, Europe's desire to rush headlong into detente with Moscow, the flips that will be required to get Japan and the NATO nations to share more of the West's military and financial burdens -- these are only four "small" items on Baker's plate. But above all is the matter of America's role as U.S. hegemony comes to an end. Constraints on spending at home will limit American ability to project influence abroad at a time when U.S. dependence...