Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engaged, but her fiance is not making this trip. Stacy and her mother set out on the 45-minute subway ride from their home to the Eastern Women's Center clinic on Manhattan's East 60th Street. They do not speak to each other on the crowded train. That whole week, for that matter, they have spoken little about the abortion. "I figured she was upset or something and she didn't want to scare me," Stacy says later of her mother...
...relentless protests compounded what had been bad airport planning in the first place. Few airports in the world are as distant from the city they serve as Narita. The designers envisioned a 125 m.p.h. bullet train and a freeway to link the airport with Tokyo. But protests halted the necessary land acquisition, and neither system was built. As a result, when the airport finally opens, travelers will be forced to take a two-hour, $50 taxi ride (or two-hour, $8.50 airport bus) to the city; and because of heavy traffic, they will be required to check in at least...
...least, it seems like I spent the entire spring vacation in a bus, car, train, cab or other vehicle of transportation. Of course, there are compensating advantages to mass transit--you meet some, ah, let us say, interesting people...
Like the woman on the train from Princeton to Hoboken, both in New Jersey. Do not ask me why anyone of sound mind and body would leave Princeton only to go to Hoboken. Neither is one of your basic Top Ten U.S. Cities. In any case, she was from Creighton College, Neb., and she was on her first trip east, to see New York City with friends. She'd been born in Wyoming--down-home, God-fearing Wyoming--and it was only a matter of time before the rural Fundamentalist began discussing religion with me, your basic...
...oversee the editorial content. In a confidential memo to his bosses, Shanks wrote that 60 Minutes is "pontifical and humorless, and its 14-minute pieces nowadays often seem too long." He promised that 20/20 would be wittier and move faster. "We don't travel to the Coast by train any more," Shanks elaborated last week. "People perceive things in shorter forms today...