Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handling double its normal number of commuters, has reactivated mothballed equipment. Municipal agencies and many firms have staggered working hours, giving employees the option to come in any time between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. and leave after putting in eight hours. Police are lenient about parking violations. City traffic is heavier, but moving smoothly...
...opposition-sponsored general strike demanding Bhutto's resignation shut down business and industry in Rawalpindi and the capital of Islamabad. Air transportation was intermittent and road traffic virtually at a standstill as opponents of the government blocked intersections and pulled people from bicycles on their way to work. Even within government ranks, opposition began to surface. Pakistan's ambassadors to Greece and Spain, both retired military officers, resigned in protest. Air Marshal Abdur Rahim Khan, who had been Ambassador to Spain, warned that Bhutto could provoke "a true civil war." In Washington the State Department stopped...
...Mississippi--the most recent. And the climate of opinion suggests that the grass may be growing greener in the Bay State within the next few years, if only in the figurative sense. Massachusetts House Bill 4914 would reduce a marijuana possession charge to the status of an ordinary traffic fine; and for the first time in history, a decriminalization bill stands a good chance of being reported out favorably from the Joint Committee on the Judiciary sometime in late June. The following article retraces the road traveled by HB-4914 over the past year or so, identifying some...
...brainchild of State Reps. John E. Murphy Jr. and Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46. While similar versions of the bill have been submitted to the legislature in the past, Hatch readily acknowledges the debt that his co-sponsor and he owe to the pioneering Oregon law. "We swiped the traffic ticket approach," Hatsh says, adding "it really doesn't hurt to plagiarize. If another state has an intelligent approach to the problem, you have all the preliminary work done. If you have a roughly similar bill, the experience of that state is directly applicable...
...swimming pool, it's not that easy to swim for a few laps in bumper-to-bumper traffic. You practically need a helicopter overhead to tell you what lanes are safe, which have tie-ups and which have breakdown lanes. Next year had better be different...