Word: expression
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...start saving points toward the biggest trip of them all: a flight to space. Arlington, Virginia-based Space Adventures is now offering suborbital flights - that's just beyond our atmosphere, 100 km above the earth - from 2008 for those who have racked up 20 million points with American Express, or 10 million air miles with U.S. Airways. That's equivalent to 400 times around the globe. Until then, for 275,000 air miles and $8,000, would-be space adventurers can take a flight on a MiG-25 jet fighter, which gets you 25 km high...
Whitehouse never envisioned spending her later years this way. She and her husband Alva Don raised four children. In the 1980s they lived in Montana, where he earned a good living as a long-haul truck driver for Pacific Intermountain Express. But in 1986 he was killed on the job in a highway accident attributed to faulty maintenance on his truck, as his company struggled to survive the cutthroat pricing of congressionally ordered deregulation. After her husband's death, Whitehouse knew the future would be tough, but she was confident in her economic survival. After all, the company had promised...
...century life, like the answering machine and the fax. Though one might suspect her of being a grumpy traditionalist in these matters, or even a Luddite, Martin has pleasantly mixed feelings about the new technology. E-mail, she says, is "the best means of quick communication since the pony express." Take that, telephone...
Though the partisans make attempts to understand the other side, they still express their preferences strongly...
...While the development committee provides a place where residents can express opinions, they are not decision-makers,” says Ann Silverman, a community development consultant who is advising the tenants...