Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although there are only about 216,000 cars registered in the city, they create monumental traffic jams as they try to negotiate the old, narrow streets or push aside carts pulled by horses or donkeys. The poor wait hours for buses, which are so crowded that passengers ride on the roofs and hang on the sides, clinging desperately to any vehicle that moves in the right direction...
...lesser ones for accomplishment. Says James D. McKevitt, Washington counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business: "Talking a good game is one thing, but getting those bureaucrats at the bottom to implement it is something else. They often wall off the most well-intentioned administrator. They have the traffic-cop attitude. They just like the power of giving tickets...
...shirts. They were followed by nurses, municipal office employees and flag-waving members of the Kabataang Barangay, a civic beautification organization for teenagers. Before long the Quezon and Jones bridges, which siphon cars across the Pasig River into Manila's downtown Ermita district, were too clogged for the traffic to move. By the time President Ferdinand Marcos, First Lady Imelda, Daughter Irene and Son Bongbong reached the Luneta grandstand in Rizal Park, fully 1.6 million supporters were jammed in front of them waving flags and shouting...
...President Richard Nixon declared an international "war on drugs," then pressed the Mexican government into joining the battle by cracking down on illegal narcotics traffic across the border. Mexico obliged with a vengeance, throwing into jail hundreds of American violators; most of them were "mules," who had been smuggling large amounts of cocaine from South America or marijuana from Mexico. A 13-year sentence-with no chance of parole-was not uncommon for a first offender. "Operation Intercept," as the border crackdown was dubbed, quickly turned into a publicity disaster for Mexico. U.S. prisoners staged hunger strikes to protest medieval...
True, tourist traffic may be higher this winter than during last year's disastrous season, if only because the weather probably will not be so bad again (temperatures dropped into the 30s last January). But convention business, which has become crucial to what prosperity the Beach has left, is likely to fall off by a fifth this year. The American College of Surgeons and several other large groups have vowed never to return until more first-class hotel rooms are available. At present, only 3,500 of Miami Beach's 27,000 hotel rooms rate that designation...