Word: subways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Delegates and media alike were met with large corporate-underwritten crates of information and goodies upon their arrival. In the patriotically decorated box was everything a visitor to New York could possibly need and much more. Included: bus and subway maps, a hardcover American Express Guide to New York, a Zagat Restaurant Survey, coupon books, a calling card with one dollar's worth of free calling, convention directories, media guides for events in the city, a CNN tote bag, and a large New York Times duffel bag. all free. Tough life, this reporting business...
...Zharikov family, with nine children ages two to 18, two dogs and a cat to feed. Strapped for cash, the family has had to accept meals and clothing from the Salvation Army. Nina Zharikov is the only wage earner, bringing home 2,000 rubles a month as a subway cleaner. The family also gets an equal sum in government child support. But "every kopeck goes for food, and there's never enough," says the 37-year-old mother. "Even though I earned less before, we could still afford to live." The Ministry of Social Protection estimates that a family...
...reach the trail by rail. The Boston subway system, part of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and called the T, is the oldest in the nation. And its four lines (red, green, blue and orange) will take you everywhere you need to go for just 85 cents a ride...
Although Revere and Wollaston are the mostaccessible beaches by subway, a car exponentiallyincreases the number of sunspots accessible tosummer school students. Just a little more mileagegets the getaway-seeking daytripper to severalpleasant beaches...
...responded that the project actually needed $900 million in rescue funding, but that seemed a bridge too far for the banks to reach. Another sorry note in the tale of this failing venture is % that O&Y had promised to contribute $720 million toward the construction of a subway line extending to Canary Wharf and beyond, a donation it's now unlikely to afford...