Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is our 350th birthday, and in celebrating it we don't want to lose track of Cambridge and Boston's participation in it," said Harvard President Derek C. Bok at yesterday's press conference. He praised the cities' contributions to Harvard, and apologized for "the various loud noises and other annoyances we have produced over the past 350 years...
...profitable Government- owned rail system. Early last year Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole had selected Norfolk Southern as the best qualified of 15 bidders to buy Conrail's freight-hauling business for $1.2 billion. Last February the Senate approved, and the much bruited merger seemed to be on track...
...music is the sound track for the movie of the mind," says English-born Rocker Eddie Jobson, formerly of Roxy Music and U.K. and now a leading New Age pianist and composer. "It is music that springs from a world culture," says Lucia Hwong, a Chinese American whose music turned up in the 1985 movie Year of the Dragon. Trying to define the style reduces Anne Robinson, a cofounder of the New Age record label Windham Hill, to "stringing words together that sound like an exotic disease identified by a German doctor. New acoustic classical jazz? New acoustic impressionistic music...
Suppose he was standing beside the town's lone rail track and saw a train coming from the north at 80 m.p.h. and on the same track another train roaring toward him from the south at equal speed. What would he do? The recruit, said Johnson, thought a few seconds, then brightened and responded, "I'd run home and get my brother." The recruiter had never heard that answer, and asked what for. Said the young man: "My brother's never seen a train wreck...
There is a feeling in Washington that we are gathering at the side of the track to watch a gigantic economic train wreck one of these days, and nobody seems inclined to do much but ask his brother along for the spectacle. The dismal economic reports this week -- slow growth, housing starts down, deficits unabated -- heightened the foreboding even while the politicians celebrated tax reform and Reagan rode horses at his ranch...