Word: droving
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...conversion to the Web came in 1995, when he read a report that projected annual Web growth at 2,300%. First he checked that he'd read the figure correctly. Then he quit his job as a hedge-fund manager in New York City, packed his bags and drove out to Seattle. Or, rather, his wife drove; Bezos was busy pecking out a business plan on his laptop...
Suddenly we were on our guard. "Where's it coming from?" I asked, frantically scanning the intersection. But there was no way to tell which driver was pointing at us, until the light changed and he drove by, laughing...
...believe it." She then told us that, earlier in the evening, the car she was driving with a friend to their home in Virginia was forced into a guardrail by some men asking for their phone number. When the car skidded and flipped over, the assailants drove off, leaving the two girls bleeding in the overturned...
This notwithstanding, the program was hardly highbrow. Dishes clattered in the background, buses drove by on Bennett St., and a hum of chatter from passers by limited any serious attempt to appreciate the music...
...should have happened years ago. Formosan termites first arrived on the mainland U.S. just after World War II, experts believe, carried from Far Eastern ports in planks or packing crates by military cargo ships. For decades, nobody worried much about them, thanks largely to powerful pesticides that drove them away from houses. But the termites simply turned their attention to nearby trees, where they thrived largely unnoticed...