Word: subways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only white on the crowded bus to work, and one of the few on the new, efficient subway system. The Paul Simon Graceland Tour, despite its amazing Black South African performers, drew an almost completely white audience. Both Blacks and whites visit the Six Flags amusement park. But during a day there I saw only two mixed groups. It was the same at the city's Lenox Square shopping mall...
Snarled traffic, polluted air and horn-honking cacophony have long frayed the nerves of Cairo's roughly 12 million residents and 1 million annual visitors. Much of the capital's legendary congestion may finally be relieved this week, when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak officially opens Cairo's first subway service. Five years and $1 billion in the making, the 17-mile, six-station ( system is the first phase of a projected 25-mile line that will ultimately transport 1 million passengers...
...system arrived none too soon. If traffic patterns had continued, Egyptian officials estimated, the streets of downtown Cairo would have been virtually gridlocked by 1990. That prospect led the government to sign an agreement with France in 1981 to build a subway modeled on the Paris Metro...
...Tahrir Square for the inaugural ride. Inside the station, walls of cream-colored marble form the backdrop to ceramic designs depicting ancient Egyptian scenes. Replicas of pharaonic statues are displayed in glass cases, adding local luster to what French Engineer Alain Chenebier proudly calls "one of the most beautiful subway systems ever...
Certainly not all of Bork's rulings come out conservative. He authored an opinion for a three-member panel that ordered the Washington, D.C., transit authority to allow an artist to rent display space in subway stations for a poster critical of Reagan. But have his principles sometimes shifted to serve his ideological preferences? In attacking a proposed civil rights law in 1963, he wrote that it would be regrettable if "justifiable abhorrence of racial discrimination ((should)) result in legislation by which the morals of the majority are self-righteously imposed upon a minority...