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...cities responded again with a mighty show of force. The Coast Guard escorted Staten Island ferryboats. The chief of the New York City police department promised there would be an officer on every rush hour subway train "for the foreseeable future." In Washington, cops clutching MP5 submachine guns strode through subway cars, and Capitol police searched tour buses...
...strode, or more accurately was pushed, and consiquently jostled nearer to the sprawled body, I am somewhat ashamed to say that I, too, hesitated to stop and help her. And in my moment of hesitation, a man behind me rushed to her aid, activating an emergency assistance box a few feet away. After that, I helped the man prop the woman up and give her some water until the paramedics arrived a few minutes later...
...Reagan Administration was simply not up to the exquisite talents of David Stockman. In five years as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, he strode through the corridors of power thwarted, in his account, by political nincompoops who never grasped what policy was all about. He has hardly met another presidential aide he did not disdain. He labored unsuccessfully to educate a dotty President in the fundamentals of economics, only to have poor Ronald Reagan ignore "the palpable, relevant facts" and wander in circles...
...graduate of Torrey Pines High School outside of San Diego, Vance looked more like a Hollywood product as he confidently strode to the plate, the delightful squeals of his personal cheering section turning heads in the crowd...
...then he strode off into the western sunset; it was dinner time with the family...