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Harvard, only a subway ride away from Boston Garden, had the smallest...
...price of protectionism went up in Washington last week. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority threw out all bids for construction of an extension to the city subway system after the low bidder turned out to be a 70%-30% joint venture of Kiewit Construction of Omaha and Kajima Engineering & Construction of Japan. The Metro acted to conform with the Murkowski-Brooks amendment, which was passed by Congress last December and bans Japanese firms from federally funded public works projects. The provision was designed to force the Japanese to open their domestic construction market to Americans...
...mayhem movies) and spend $9.2 million to renovate those that become nonprofit playhouses. (A new hotel and merchandise mart are also envisioned for the same stretch of 42nd Street.) Finally, Klein and company will spend $81.8 million to spruce up the surrounding sidewalks and overhaul the purgatorial Times Square subway station. "We can create the most extraordinary buildings in the city and create a sense of place there," says Johnson. "It's better to do it all in one spot than plop, plop, plop buildings all over Times Square. I should think it will be more important than Rockefeller Center...
While Livingstone won wider support for slashing subway and bus fares, his policies infuriated many Britons. One of them was Thatcher, who pushed legislation through Parliament abolishing the council in 1986. Out of a job, Livingstone was elected to the House last year from Brent East, in northwest London. His fellow Labor M.P.s shunned him, but party rank and file later elected him to a seat on Labor's ruling council...
...could build a wonderful life with her; he is absolutely certain of that. They could pass delightful days discussing the netherworld of basketball arenas, talking of crowd control, relish, ramps. Or would it be better to start life over again with the lady cop in the subway? She looked mighty fetching in blue. A life of summonses and judo. Or the solemn woman at the rent-a-car counter? A prospect of long nights spent writing their initials inside little circles. The cashier at the A&P? The jogger with the Westie? The Captain confesses that he is much taken...