Word: drives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drive time at the O'Malley household. About now, perhaps as you're reading this, my wife Nancy and I are in the van heading north on I-95 with our three children (ages 3 to 10) on our annual trek to Grandma's house in New Jersey--a kiddie cosmos away from our home in South Florida. And we won't stop there. Gluttons for punishment...er, family togetherness, we'll soon leave Grandma's and head for the White Mountains of New Hampshire and the rocky coast of Maine. And we love it. Except for the parts...
...parents like us with demanding full-time jobs that often consume days and evenings--Nancy is an elementary-school teacher and I write (but usually about somebody else)--the annual drive can be an especially rewarding opportunity to spend some captive-audience time with our kids. It can also be a challenging time, as most parents know too well ("We there yet?" "He's touching me!"). For reasons I don't fully comprehend, since I'm not fond of driving and do all of it, I actually look forward to this two-day, 1,300-mile sojourn. Perhaps...
...Satellite radio is just what it sounds like -- radio signals broadcast from an orbiting transmitter -- but it'll have huge advantages over conventional radio. Satellite radio can blanket the country with its signals, so you'll never drive out of range of your favorite station; zones that a satellite can't reach, such as areas with tall buildings, will be taken care of by ground-based relay stations. Satellite radio is also much clearer than conventional radio, and it can offer hundreds of different channels, some of which (or so its promoters promise) will be commercial-free. MORE...
...Glassley pulls into the lab and drives the car to a natural-gas pump. Drivers are responsible for filling the tank up, even though they may not drive the same car their next time out. There's a lost-and-found for stuff left in the cars: sunglasses, cell phones, coffee mugs. (One guy forgot his baby's car seat.) A website allows sharers at the lab to reserve cars for errand running (at 10[cents] a mile) and to arrange car pools back to the BART station...
Montgomery's segregation laws were complex: blacks were required to pay their fare to the driver, then get off and reboard through the back door. Sometimes the bus would drive off before the paid-up customers made it to the back entrance. If the white section was full and another white customer entered, blacks were required to give up their seats and move farther to the back; a black person was not even allowed to sit across the aisle from whites. These humiliations were compounded by the fact that two-thirds of the bus riders in Montgomery were black...