Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was ever a time that Harvard sophomore Deirdre McCarthy wanted to ride the green line down Commonwealth Avenue, it was yesterday during the final miles of the Boston Marathon...
...great weekend," Harvard Coach Ed Krass said. "Half of the team was holding down a cold or light flu. The team played under a lot of adversity. It was a long ride to Penn, and then to Columbia. But the team rose to the challenge...
Sukachev, who remembers having to beg for money to ride the subway, makes more than 3,000 rubles ($4,800) a month from concerts, nearly 15 times the Soviet average wage and more than twice the take-home pay of Mikhail Gorbachev. (Says Sukachev: "If I had his house and his car, he could have my 3,000.") Still, success has its problems. "It's really dangerous when people start to praise you for doing the things they used to slam you for," he notes. The band now risks losing the special edge to its sound that developed from...
Like Fedorov's restaurant, the co-op movement has taken off -- but it faces a bumpy ride. Although they now account for only about 1% of the country's economy, the 48,000 Soviet co-ops (there were only a handful a year ago) employ some 770,000 workers. The services they offer read like a Yellow Pages directory: animal grooming, auto repairs, computer maintenance, hairstyling, plumbing, translating -- even operating pay toilets...
...march is expected to draw about half a million people to rally for women's rights to legalized abortions and to equality under the law. Harvard organizers have said that although only 400 will ride their buses to get to Washington, many more will travel on their...