Word: cars
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Unlike the car, truck and bus, the bike does not spew stinky fumes and carcinogens. A bike is easy to park in a sliver of space, and of precious oil it needs only a smidgen to keep the wheels squeakless. Riders may turn rowdy, but the vehicle itself is quiet -- a blessed virtue amid the squawk-bleat- scream-grind-growl-honk-toot-wail-shr iek that is the voice of the big city...
...tacks on the route of a Labor Day cycle tour and flattened the tires of some 40 bikes. Motorist-biker tensions around St. Louis grew high last month after Bicyclist John S. Reif Jr., 22, a nationally ranked triathlete, was fatally injured in a head-on collision with a car. Speaking of the current mood, Deeds Fletcher, 47, a municipal-bond dealer and a cyclist, says it often feels as if "cars are going after people. It's like the Christians and the lions...
...People don't realize how much earning money costs," says Oest, 55. "Having a job is expensive. The clothes, the car, the house with the mortgage payments. If you spend all your time working for someone else, you don't have time to learn to do things yourself...
...well regarded and prosperous. As director general of the Washington-based International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, or Intelsat, which manages the global satellite- communications system, he had an annual salary of about $250,000, with prospects of hefty increases. His executive perquisites included a chauffeur- driven Lincoln Town Car, an annual housing allowance of about $40,000 and free first-class air travel to anywhere in the world. Colino, who graduated from Amherst and Columbia University School of Law, inspired admiration and sometimes envy among his peers. "In many ways," says a former associate, "he was an extraordinary director general...
...should have, I joined up with a friend, John, in a Bonnie-Clyde duo of danger. And by the end of the summer, I could hold a lighter onto a fuse until the sparks flew, savor the smell of burnt-out shells and take cover from an oncoming patrol car...