My husband I were married for about a year at that point, and we decided it would be fun to celebrate Valentine's Day together there.
All told, a deal with the states could trim the need for subsidies by some $800 million per year — at that point, Congress would no longer need to cover Amtrak's operating losses.
The National had been holed up for more than a year at that point, recording our fifth album, High Violet; seeing The Americans was important for me as a reference to the songs we were writing.
"Sonic Youth's fascination with Madonna was well into its fourth or fifth year at that point," Mr. Markey noted, referring in part to an album that Sonic Youth and Mike Watt, the former Minutemen bassist, had released under the name Ciccone Youth in 1988.
Meanwhile, Hardrick and Sanders had been searching for Tony, or at least for boys like him; they had been in New Orleans recruiting students for almost a year at that point, running radio ads, knocking on doors, posting signs on the grassy strips that run down the middle of the city's boulevards.
The fact that Wilson — the president of a nation more than 3,000 miles removed from the closest battlefront, a nation directly involved in the war for less than a year at that point — presumed to dictate conditions for peace at all was remarkable, and it presaged the outsize role the United States would soon take on.
If they had waited until 70 to claim benefits, each would have gotten $20,693 a year at that point--even though they didn't earn more wages between 62 and 70.
We had already been together for some 20 years at that point.
He'd been in office as a congressman two years at that point.
After all, I'd been living in my body for 19 years at that point.
I had been an All-American for a couple of years at that point.
