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...does a system need rehabilitation more than New York City. Its subways are a filthy, Dantesque netherworld, plagued not merely by delays (one train in every ten is late) but by violent crime (18 murders, 12,000 muggings, robberies and other felonies in the past year). The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) carries one of every six people using public transit in the entire nation. The city cannot function without it. During a ten-day strike last spring, New York firms lost about $100 million in sales each workday...
...activists expressed surprise and anger, as they did after the sentencing, that DeGiacomo had given the maximum penalty after the prosecution recommended ten-day jail terms...
FULDA, West Germany--Pope John Paul II yesterday stressed the basic equality of all making in speeches to Jews, Moslems and Protestants at the mid-point of his ten-day visit to Germany...
Nothing less than the survival of the U.S. auto industry in its present form depends on the success of these new 1981 models. Sales of U.S.-made cars have fallen from 9.3 million in 1978 to an estimated 7 million this year. Last week the latest ten-day figures showed that the Big Three automakers sold the fewest cars for any mid-August period since 1967. Chrysler has already lost more money ($2 billion in the past 18 months) than any other company in the history of American business. The firm only exists today because of the $1.5 billion guaranteed...
Canadian Ace Billy Bishop shot down 72 enemy aircraft in World War I, 25 in an astonishing ten-day burst. Baron Manfred von Richthofen was first in kills with 80. The irony is that Bishop was not a very skillful flyer and received severe reprimands for cracking up Royal Flying Corps planes...