Residents of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx pay substantially higher fares than suburban commuters do for traveling the same distance on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North, but their service is more sporadic and their stations are much more dilapidated, according to a survey of the commuter railroads released yesterday by the Public Advocate's office.
Despite the sizable police presence, few officers were positioned on the stretch of West Florissant near where Brown was killed.* The result was that damage to the area around the police station was sporadic and short-lived, but Brown's neighborhood burned.
"The result was that damage to the area around the police station was sporadic and short-lived, but Brown's neighbourhood burned.
Protesters continued to follow police all the way to the station, with sporadic scuffles breaking out.
Nevertheless, independent monitors said there had been sporadic problems at several polling stations, including the intimidation of voters by political parties, a lack of marker ink to make sure people did not vote twice, and men voting for their wives and other family members.
Sporadic queues were reported at petrol stations across London, at locations including Hackney, Vauxhall and the centre of the city.
Independent election monitors reported sporadic instances of delayed openings of polling stations, broken voting machines, ballot shortages, voter confusion and occasional abuse in a number of battleground states including Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The rainband also produced wind gusts that reached 86 km/h (53 mph) at the island's Naval Air Station; the winds resulted in sporadic power outages across the island.
Indeed, even a big OPEC output rise may not prevent sporadic shortages and price shocks at American petrol stations this summer, since it takes five or six weeks for oil to travel from the Persian Gulf to America's east coast.
Although NBC was known to have station-to-station links as early as 1941, DuMont received its station licenses before NBC resumed its previous sporadic network broadcasts after the war.
