Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cabdrivers objected last night to what they said was the Cambridge License Commission's interference in their affairs, as recently-passed regulations of cab age and flat rates came up for review...
...addition, drivers protested the commission's flat rate regulations, which set fixed rates for trips from Cambridge hotels to Logan Airport. These rates, which include tolls and gratuities, are usually lower than the metered fares, costing drivers revenue...
...weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,/ Seems to me all the uses of this world," says Hamlet to himself...
...secondary players can sing; there are very few flat notes on little side solos, and the moments of all-cast a cappella are worthy of--dare we say it--Memorial Church. All this is atop an orchestra which, despite an occasionally over-zealous snare, disappears from consciousness after the overture as the best pit orchestras know...
...When Willard Met Babe Ruth By Donald Hall (Browndeer; $16) This book, like much of Hall's adult work, is set in Wilmot Flat, New Hampshire. Here, some time ago, a burly fellow named Babe Ruth, then a member of the Boston Red Sox, slid his roadster into a ditch. Fortunately for the ballplayer, a team of oxen belonging to young Willard's dad was on hand to pull his car out of trouble. Hall, a sportswriter whose day job is penning poetry, has Willard follow the Babe's career the way fans all over the country did back then...