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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left lane to right lane, right lane to center lane, forward to pass the red Honda, fall back to let the red Honda pass again. Minimum 40 m.p.h., maximum 65 m.p.h. most of the way. Spend the night in a motel sprawled in the wasteland of an interchange construction site, the cavernous lobby enclosing a bleakly misplaced chandelier, as a cave might contain a waterfall briefly sparkling in a flashlight's beam. The room is nasty, a shivering 52 degrees F as the air conditioner roars, its Off button broken. In a pancake house, tired women, Laverne and Rosalie according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Separate Reality on I-95 | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...plants of their own. But last week the pioneering VW plant came to grief, a victim of growing competition in the American market. Volkswagen, whose U.S. sales have plunged from 162,005 autos in 1981 to 73,920 last year, said it would halt production at the Westmoreland site, its only American car plant. The factory will gradually phase out assembly of its two models, Jetta and Golf, putting 2,500 employees out of work by late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Th-Th-That's All, Volks | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

According to MBTA General Manager James F. O'Leary, the special emphasis on passenger safety, and this train annunciator system is a very important component." The subway group decided to install the system after a test site at the Red Line's Shawmut stop operated successfully for six years, said Carbona...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Computer Voice to Herald Arrival of Subway Trains | 11/29/1987 | See Source »

According to MBTA General Manager James F. O'Leary, the special emphasis on passenger safety, and this train annunciator system is a very important component." The subway group decided to install the system after a test site at the Red Line's Shawmut stop operated successfully for six years, said Carbona...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Computer Voice to Herald Arrival of Subway Trains | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

...N.P.A.'s shadow is almost everywhere. In Ilocos Norte last week, four mayors of small towns sought refuge in Laoag after the guerrillas kidnaped workers at a nearby construction site. One evening, after a reporter rode through the hills outside Laoag to a military camp, the commander said, "I am surprised to see you. I don't even allow my men to travel that road at this hour. Things may look normal, but they aren't." The province, which is Marcos' ancestral home, has been deprived of the pork-barrel largesse that rolled its way during his regime. Aquino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Praying For Time | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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