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...City Council approves things as small as curb cuts," said Power. "This is kind of like a huge curb...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Realtor Proposes Closing Oxford Street to Traffic | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...close company, smart-alecky wisecracks are standard. Most know to curb their critiques in a strange environment. Not these guys. "But I don't participate," Tomijina says. "I don't mingle. I just watch the show. Most of the guys here are kinda surly." Tomijina, self-diagnosed as "fully disassociated with the whole community," also admits that this fact might explain why he is Loker-lounging solo in the first place...

Author: By J.p. Goldstein, | Title: Teletalking | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...close company, smart-alecky wisecracks are standard. Most know to curb their critiques in a strange environment. Not these guys. "But I don't participate," Tomijina says. "I don't mingle. I just watch the show. Most of the guys here are kinda surly." Tomijina, self-diagnosed as "fully disassociated with the whole community," also admits that this fact might explain why he is Loker-lounging solo in the first place...

Author: By J.p. Goldstein, | Title: teletalking | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...government is prodding banks and companies that are less reform minded to start using the same menu. It has forced tough new regulations to curb the excessive lending that helped push the economy to the edge of collapse, shut down deadbeat firms, and opened the clubby world of finance to overseas ownership (foreigners now own about 58% of the Housing & Commercial Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea Thinks Small | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...Driver," I shouted in the sweaty, rotund man's ear, "This is my stop." He pulled to the curb and I skipped down the steps. The elderly lady and her palette-minded youngster climbed down the stairs behind me. We went our separate ways, they searching for a Teletubbies activity book and me, well, I was waiting for new adventures...

Author: By T.j. Kelleher, | Title: Four Dollars and Change | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

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