Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything availablebicycles, helicopters, roller skates, unicycles, ferry boats, mopeds, minibuses. Some 200,000 people cycled around town one day, and 6,600 hoofed it across the Brooklyn Bridge. The New York Road Runners Club stationed members along the way to dispense water to the weary during the rush hour...
...gallon hat roller skating on the Avenue of the Americas; a distinguished, elderly man tooling along 57th Street in a motorized chair, his briefcase tucked under the seat; a woman decked out in designer dress and gold jewelry plodding down Fifth Avenue in sneakers. Mayor Edward Koch paid rush-hour visits to the Brooklyn Bridge, whooping like a cheerleader and shouting encouragement to the passing throngs...
...ride the 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...
...Alitto, Liang's early life is a parable of psychiatric disorder, in which Liang's dizzying rush through a Western, and Indian, and finally a Chinese Confucian stage provide a microcosm of China's search for a culture to serve in the modern era. Alitto uses Eriksonian analysis to ascribe to Liang a crisis of identity, and then claims that Liang projected "his own encounter with meaninglessness onto China's cultural dilemma...
Businessmen initially voiced strong skepticism about the Administration's latest inflation-fighting strategy. Would the Fed's actions prove to be so heavyhanded as to cause a far steeper slide than anyone expected? If so, many economists were fearful that Washington might react in a panicky rush to begin spending all over again, sending inflation surging to new and even more frightening heights. Observed one Zurich banker last week in a rueful sentiment that was almost universally shared among business leaders and economists everywhere: "I am afraid that at the first sign of a sharp recession, there will...