Word: transit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of evacuation was not new in Zionist thinking. Theodor Herzl, in hisDiaries, made the following statement regarding the Palestinian natives: "We shall have to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly...
...deepening unease at the way we treated the Vietnamese and the way they treated one another. I hadn't been 10 minutes off the plane at Bienhoa before I saw one of our troops abusing the baggage handlers; the bus driver who ferried us to the transit barracks spent most of the trip screaming insults at the people on the road, and nearly made good on his threat to run down an old woman who was slow getting...
...After discussions with the city and state police, the decision was made at 12:20 p.m. to evacuate and stop all transit coming into the city of Boston," he said...
Lucy (Sandra Bullock) is a lonely, orphaned, Chicago Transit Authority worker who becomes infatuated with Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher); a commuter she has never spoken to. On Christmas Day, Lucy rescues Peter after he falls unconscious onto the tracks of an approaching train. Due to an incredulous plot twist, Lucy is mistaken for Peter's fiancée at the hospital...
...from a linkside villa. Agee has his defenders, although few of them are willing to speak on the record. Far from hiding problems from the board, his supporters say, the deposed chairman reported them as quickly as they came to light. Many of the woes involved Morrison Knudsen's transit division, which Agee had been trying to build up since 1990. The strategy seemed sound at the time: Agee believed that the Buy America movement, coupled with Morrison Knudsen's position as the only U.S.-owned manufacturer of railcars, would make the business highly profitable. "He did have a coherent...