Word: carly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...side table by the door.I smell it again, and then put it down on the counter. “Yup.”She comes over to the alcove by the fridge and just stands there quietly. “There’s a lot of cars out in the driveway,” she says, after a minute.“I’ll bet.”“Some crashed up a little.”“It was that kind of party...
...dolphin.”My body rotated slowly so as not to disturb her cloud-gazing. I elevated myself with one elbow, and I looked deep into Katie’s shimmering brown eyes. She continued to look at the clouds.“That one looks like a car.”And then, something inside of me went wrong, and I halted. I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t. I had waited so long to get to this point – this point that I had dreamed about for the longest time...
...Egomaniacal perhaps, but look: the order was restored. He wallowed in uncertainty, lying in an empty parking lot, wondering at his existence. He was lying on his back in the lot, in spot number twenty-eight, watching the stars, when headlights swept across his body, and he heard a car engine slow, then cut off. A car door opening, slamming shut, the sound of high-heeled footsteps, and a shadow fell momentarily across his view of the cosmos. His girlfriend’s body settled on top of him, her head on his chest in spot twenty-eight, her feet...
...every analyst is convinced that a $4,000 or $5,000 rebate would convince suddenly spendthrift U.S. consumers to buy a new car - especially the sort of customers who would own a clunker in the first place. "Either this program won't make them buy, or they're just poor," says Wolkonowicz. But a cash-for-clunkers deal with tough enough fuel standards would at least be a way to throw Detroit another lifeline without sinking the planet - even as Washington seeds longer-term demand for more-efficient vehicles. The key, like any used car contact, is to check...
...find the upside in the downturn. A college-admissions officer, watching families reassess their means and ends, suggests that maybe the insane competitiveness will recede. The yoga instructor says living more simply relaxes us, as if the entire country needs to slow its breathing. The buyer at the used-car lot feels both frugal and green: that hatchback isn't used, it's "pre-owned," and this counts as recycling. The discount shoppers view their task as a scavenger hunt and take a certain pride in finding the bargain, cutting the deal; 23% of us are haggling more, a profitable...