Word: airporters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kohler had been sounded out by both the Metrostars and the New England Revolution prior to the draft, so he had an idea who might be interested in choosing him--but in the end, he didn't find out his status until he returned to Logan Airport on Sunday. The draft had moved into a hotel conference room that morning, and Kohler was made the fifth selection of twenty on the second and final...
...class they are taking. Well it doesn't matter. Professors aren't one-dimensional academics who only care about the subjects they teach and the research they do. Professors are people, too. They go to see movies and plays. They drive convertibles and pick their mothers up at the airport. They eat goldfish and drink Corona with lime. Not only that, but they are interested in their students and their students lives. Sure, you'll have to make the effort to talk to them if you are interested in getting to know them. But if you make the first step...
...used by Clinton's campaign team to stay on top of donors and provide them with enough emoluments to keep them feeding the party's money machine. When a state dinner was being planned, WhoDB was consulted for the guest list. It was tapped again to assure friendly airport crowds to welcome Air Force One when the President traveled...
...given it out to strangers when he wants to hear their stories in full. But most often it's a way for people like Staley to bypass regular channels, which once left her in tears after she'd poured quarter after quarter into a phone at Washington's National Airport. From the day she was handed the magic number, Staley has been faxing a stream of jokes, gossip and encouragement. "Hello from one essential government worker to another," she wrote the day after the first government shutdown began in 1995. "I'm only hearing support for your refusal to sign...
...reforms. Inspired by two months of demonstrations in next-door Serbia, Bulgarian workers, students, doctors and civil servants are striking, marching and bouncing for change. Taxis sporting opposition flags block the roads, along with people clinging together in human chains. "I earn $21 a month," says Nikolai Ivanov, an airport border-control officer, between bounces. "Any other reason is irrelevant." Says Kiril Korchev, a road laborer: "The communists tricked us. But we're going to stop them. The people are no longer afraid...