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...need to take an Eastern shuttle back to New York. I have to get back on a Lexington Avenue IRT headed downtown and get off at the 161st St. stop. I have to go back to the box seats behind first base, watch Mattingly turn over a double play and then watch him hit the upper deck in the bottom of the ninth...
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced last week that on the basis of new information, the case against Goetz will be reopened. Investigators said they now had an additional witness. Morgenthau refused to identify the witness, but there was speculation that the individual was a passenger on the IRT subway car last December when Goetz, 37, opened fire on four teenagers he claims had hassled him and hustled him for money. A number of other passengers testified before the original grand jury, which indicted Goetz only for illegal possession of a handgun. Acting State Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane ruled...
...experts have concluded that any shrinkage in the size of the middle class in recent years has been caused by people moving up rather than down. Says Brookings Institution Economist Robert Lawrence: "Many income earners have managed to raise their wages so much that there has been a growth irt upper-class jobs...
Back in fifth grade, I used to ride the subway to school every day. Sometimes I would be scared--there were some pretty unpleasant-looking people on the uptown IRT. "You can't go through life being scared of the subway," my father would tell me. "You can't live in a city and worry about crime all the time--it's completely futile." That's the same attitudes society in general has to take towards sporadic signs of sickess. Common sense is one thing, but over-concern over such things as Halloween candy can lead to unwarranted paralysis...
...Infra-Red Telescope (IRT), scheduled to fly on the shuttle's "Space Lab?" mission in November 1984, has been "three years away from" a scheduled flights since 1977. The IRT is now scheduled for lift-off in less than two-and-a-half-years...