Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate about Amtrak's future comes along just when the railroad is picking up steam. The Government created the line, officially named the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, in 1970 to give America's struggling railroads a break. While hauling freight is potentially profitable, carting people around has long been a money-losing business. Amtrak's infusion of federal cash helped turn the line from an ancient, rusty clunker into a relatively sleek machine...
Such intrigue clouds the real mystery. Is Brown a harbinger of a return to activism on college campuses? Veteran activist McLoughlin is cautiosly optimistic, "activism picks up steam but it takes a while. The climate of the country has to change...
Buckets of dry ice sent vapors swirling through the Government Printing Office. As the cold steam rose around them, White House aides swathed in heavy sweaters and long scarves handed journalists advance copies of the federal budget for fiscal 1986. For mood music, they piped in the sound track from The Big Chill...
Over the last three years, the debate up steam Prompting the currtnt discussion are the conclusions of two recent studies by Collage officials, which find that minorities, athletes, and students with high academic athletes and standing are distributed unevenly among the Houses...
...least able to protect themselves. Even as the U.S. economy booms, so, perversely, does the number of homeless. Experts put the figure as low as 300,000 and as high as nearly 2 million. Certainly the homeless have become more noticeable as they shamble through bus depots, sleep on steam grates and occasionally die in public. The nation was shocked last December when Jesse Carpenter, a decorated World War II hero, succumbed to exposure in Lafayette Park, just across the street from the White House...