Word: cy
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...exactly where gridlock is forming and quickly alert drivers to delays and alternative routes. The data it gets from carriers are aggregated from many users and scrambled, so no one can track an individual phone. "No official can use [the data] to give someone a speeding ticket," says Cy Smith, CEO of AirSage...
...gaze awe-struck at the player who finished second in the voting for the National League Cy Young Award in 1995, and who, more importantly, was at the center of the baseball universe for a few precious days in October...
...that raged between her and her father, she captures the tawdry colors of the Old West and mourns their fading. She looks back on her parents' tempestuous marriage and divorce, both of which baffled them and her as a child, with tolerance and wisdom. And her storytelling skills give Cy Taillon the posthumous gift that he would have most appreciated: the chance to appear in front of a new audience...
...carried her parents from one raucous engagement to the next: "By my third birthday, I had logged 150,000 miles, occasion for an AP wirephoto captioned: 'She Sees America.' " She also witnessed an endless string of saloons and her parents' behavior in them: "Pat was a two-fisted drinker. Cy was a drunk, charming and good-humored when sober, combative and cold-eyed when drunk." Liquor fueled fights between them, as did their constant lack of money. They also, Cyra recognized later, baited each other with flagrant infidelities: "Pat and Cy competed in sexual conquest as they competed in everything...
...presented to the Congress in February 1967. Among the items to be considered was the recommendation of the Chiefs that the budget request include funds for production of an antiballistic-missile system. I explained to the President that the Chiefs had recommended the action, but that Cy and I strongly opposed...