Word: unevennesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the country, traffic is up less dramatically-a pattern that seems to reflect the geographically uneven bite of the gasoline shortage. Amtrak cars are still rolling across the Midwest and Far West nearly empty, while station managers in the Northeast have had to rent cars from local commuter railroads to help handle the crush. Amtrak's losses swelled to $158 million last year, $11 million more than in 1972, despite a 24% gain in revenues, to $202 million. Congress is picking up nearly all of the tab through a $154 million subsidy, and Amtrak officials are expected...
...Uneven distribution of the energy bonanza is not Amtrak's only problem. As traffic rises, so do wear and tear on the 1,400 cars of Amtrak's fleet, some of them superannuated hulks in need of replacement. Amtrak executives are still choosing a design for new cars; most will not be in service before 1976. Until then, passengers on many runs face equipment breakdowns and a decline in comfort. Punctuality is also on the wane; the Metroliner's on-time percentage dropped to 63% last year from 76% in 1972, and some trains-including...
...ball park vendor is no different than any other laborer. The hours are different--lasting four quarters, three periods, or nine innings. The days are different, too; West coast swings, southern jaunts, and three-day excursions make the schedule shaky and uneven. But the vendor has an employer and a union as any other occupation...
...good that the Radcliffe Institute has acted to call attention to the special problems that women artists face. This first exhibit is uneven, but it is especially admirable because it shows us art--not just women's art. The gallery could have put together a collection of politically feminist art and called it the kind of women's art that needs to be supported. But that would have been defeating the whole point. In order to succeed women artists have to cope with uniquely feminine problems, but they don't have to produce a uniquely feminine...
...little buildings, but in the streets themselves. Everyday the Indian peasants, who live higher up in the poorer sections of the city, make the long, strenuous climb down into this commercial sector, where they spread their small supply of goods or produce out in front of them on the uneven stones of the streets. As the dark early morning sky begins to lighten, the quarter is slowly transformed from sleepy urban streets into a carnival-like marketplace of relentless color and activity...