Word: subway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...railroad has petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to retire the train, and meanwhile is trying to persuade the Amtrak system to assume its operation. That of course could mean substitution of all-coach subway cars and sandwich bars for first-class sleeping cars and gently swaying restaurants-per ardua ad Amtrak...
...there we were at the end of the blue line. We got off the subway and before us sprawled an acre of parking lot in the middle of which rose a vast stadium. Entering Wonderland evokes vague sensations of a military concentration camp. The building is surrounded by barbed wire, and the sound of dogs barking makes quite a din. The only things lacking are searchlights and watchtowers...
...family just gave you a brand new little sports car for your birthday, and you're just dying to bring it up to school and zip around Boston. No more trips home on Amtrack, no more mad dashes for the last subway out of Park St. You're a free spirit now, a real independent individual...
...From the subway they walk three blocks to the concrete high-rise that houses the clinic. A woman is being accosted by two strangers as she enters the building. "Don't kill your baby. Please don't kill your baby," says one of them, Miles Button, 43, a burly Long Island cabinetmaker and father of five. The woman brushes past him. "It's not easy work," sighs his companion, Anne Gilmartin, 44. "We're hitting them at a bad time, grabbing them at the last moment." Another woman angrily asks Button why he is there...
Certainly there are exceptions. New York City, still seeking federal aid to fend off bankruptcy, was forced last week to find money to give a raise to transit workers and avert a threatened subway and bus strike. And the cost of removing last winter's mountainous snows has strained the budgets of some localities in the Northeast and Midwest. Not so, however, in the Sunbelt. For example, Houston, reveling in a record surplus of $24 million, is budgeting to train 500 new cops this year, more than triple the average for the past decade...