Word: carpool
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DENVER HAS tried a different approach, urging its citizens to modify their own driving habits. Denver drivers are encouraged to carpool and to leave their cars at home on days corresponding to the digits on their license plates...
...soon as he got his driver's license, Britain's Prince Charles, 18, picked up a sedan from the royal carpool, and set off for a night on the town. Beside him in the front seat of the Rover when he pulled up to London's Vaudeville Theatre was a tall, smashing blonde; so naturally next day all of Fleet Street was front-paging hot items about "the mystery girl" and gasping that for the first time ever Charlie had a girl friend. Actually the mystery girl was just a friend of the family, Angela...
...pants, the girls quickly mastered the special vocabulary used to describe the chaos beneath them. In the lingo of the traffic reporters, "gapers' block" is a tie-up caused by motorists slowing down to gape at an accident. "Spaghetti bowl" means an intersection where cars habitually pile up. "Carpool kamikazes" refers to autos overloaded with commuters who are not watching where they're going...
...turned out in his Scots College uniform. Graeme Thorne called goodbye to his 3½-year-old sister Belinda and started toward the corner 300 yards from home, where a schoolmate's mother was to pick him up for the drive to school. A few minutes later the carpool mother called to ask: ''Isn't Graeme coming to school today? He wasn't at the corner...