Word: windowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several people at the meeting said they had attended a demonstration earlier yesterday in front of the Federal Building in Boston, during which protesters pushing on the glass of the building broke a window...
...they passed Holyoke Center, where the University's anti-union strategist Anne H. Taylor has her office, the buses slowed down long enough for the supporters to cheer, sing and wave fists out the window...
...course books don't talk about maneuvering Manhattan in a snowstorm. "They'll % soon find out," smiles a young instructor. "Drove ten years, truckin' got both my wives." Truck-company reps, roaming the halls to recruit talent, mince no words about the tough life. "Glory goes out the window when you're pounding 5,000 miles a week," says an old-timer. "Trucking used to be an honorable profession too. Now a lady can't even get on the CB without getting harassed. And John Q. hates us." As Instructor Ed Bagby warns his students, "A lot of drivers have...
...shelter seeking refuge from their Philadelphia Street home. With the violence among drug dealers and the frequent police raids on local crack houses, explains Arrington, "we didn't feel safe." During a recent late-night shootout, she says, "one of the bullets ricocheted and came through the bedroom window." According to Kevin Hailey, an autoworker who moved into the C.O.T.S. shelter last week, crack is an omnipresent fact of life in Detroit. "Drugs have taken over," says Hailey. "It has ruined the schools. You've got teachers doing it now. Every place is a dope exchange...
...police provide squad-car escorts, but they cannot follow every bus. Besides, they often become targets themselves. Bottles are routinely hurled at patrol cars, and a shopping cart, an automobile transmission and even a refrigerator have been heaved out of high-rise windows, narrowly missing the cruisers. The Guardian Angels have taken to patrolling the buses, but drivers complain that the red-bereted figures make them a more attractive target. On the Guardians' first bus patrol two weeks ago, Founder Curtis Sliwa and his squad hit the deck along with terrified passengers when a lead pipe smashed through a window...