Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's Thanksgiving Day airport rush may prove especially hectic since overall passenger volume is already up 10 percent over last year, said Logan Airport Spokesman Dee Clark. She said she expected passenger volume to increase by as much as 25 percent on Wednesday...
...kind of rush Dulsky put on Saturday was most unfriendly...
...people reported being fired upon by other drivers. In separate cases, Illinois police arrested several people who terrorized drivers with toy guns. Said State Police Sergeant Dave Jung: "Our troopers carry real guns, and we're not going to tolerate this anymore." In California numerous police patrols at rush hour choked off last summer's highway fusillade. The Los Angeles County sheriff's department estimates that 43 shooting incidents have occurred since last June...
Ortega called his scheme a "proposal, not an ultimatum." Wright found the details patchy, but felt that they had "elements of good faith" for both sides. Publicly, the Reagan Administration was unwilling to rush to judgment. "We don't really know what's in this Ortega-Wright plan, and we just have to wait and see what they're talking about," said Fitzwater. Privately, officials denounced the scheme. "It sounds a lot like the Sandinistas' old unilateral cease-fire," said a naysayer at State. Although Contra Leader Adolfo Calero shot down Ortega's call for the rebels to disarm...
...race to beat the morning rush hour, a bus filled with at least 70 workers and schoolchildren, some as young as twelve, was speeding toward Mexico City along the Tlahuac-Chalco highway. Suddenly the driver lost control in a dense patch of fog. The bus lurched off the shoulder, flipped over and plunged into a muddy, 9-ft.-deep corner of Lake Xico, a sewage-fouled lagoon. Rescue workers freed nine survivors (one later died) and recovered 39 bodies within a few hours. About 20 passengers escaped, but another 20 or so were presumed dead inside...