Word: unclog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deteriorated and its subways were falling apart. The Federal Government called for more efficient public transit and urged private companies to design a better bus (see box). Mass transit was going to be the methadone that would help America withdraw from its addiction to foreign oil. It would unclog crowded highways and improve the quality of air. Besides, it was an economic necessity: people needed a reliable means of getting to work without being exhausted in the process; businesses needed a way to get customers downtown...
...fury. Two weeks ago, the International Longshoremen's Association announced that its members would not load cargo aboard ships bound for the Soviet Union. Last week President Carter called I.L.A. President Thomas Gleason to the Oval Office and told him, "as your President and Commander in Chief," to "unclog the distribution system." Gleason promised no more than to discuss the request with his membership. But the Government itself is moving to cut down cultural exchanges; last week it made it known that it would cancel a Washington exhibition of artworks from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...