Word: punctuality
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Dylan opened, at a punctual starting time of 8:15, with the favorite of many a college-aged fan, “Rainy Day Women #12 &35.” Despite Dylan’s command that “everybody must get stoned,” the audience remained subdued and only under the influence of Dylan’s fantastic band...
...visited Athens and issued complimentary statements. "A lot of progress has been made, and things are moving quickly," says Denis Oswald, chairman of the I.O.C. Coordinating Commission. "I am confident that in the end we'll be ready on time." Still, I.O.C. officials - many of whom are, after all, punctual Swiss - remain nervous. They fret that any further delay, no matter how slight, will be disastrous. Greek officials smile and shrug. We are a last-minute people, they say. It is a national characteristic to leave things to the end. The work will be done. A relaxed national character...
...Throughout his career, whether his plate was heaping or bare, Welles was notoriously late. (In his closing comments for the Mer-cury?s radio version of "Around the World in Eighty Days," Welles sheepishly or puckishly describes himself as "one of the least punctual of mortals ... who can?t read time tables, wind watches or get out of bed.") In "Theatre of the Imagination," an engrossing radio tribute on the 50th anniversary of the Mercury ra-dio program, Richard Wilson says he can?t remember a Mercury play that opened on schedule. "Radio was the only medium that imposed...
...Anyway, we had a wonderful time. And that?s precisely my point, and the point I hope everyone at Amtrak, and everyone who?s trying to help Amtrak, will latch on to. As everyone who?s ever backpacked through Europe knows, rail travel can be everything we expect: Exciting, punctual, even a little bit romantic. At the heart of Amtrak are the beginnings of a great rail system, and whether it's a matter of tough love (i.e. less federal funding) or not-so-tough love (as much money as they can spend), I hope someone will figure out exactly...
...said. Volume, the second-leading cause, accounted for 14 percent (63,048 delays), a 42.3 percent increase over the previous year. And New York's LaGuardia Airport, which loosened restrictions on the number of flights during the last four months of the year, was the nation's least punctual airport, with 18,026 volume delays, or 28.6 percent of the national total...