Word: herds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There might be something going on in either Adams D or Eliot H. Ahhh, the days when a neon sign taped to my forehead blinking “freshman, freshman” couldn’t have been more obvious than my 23-to-a-herd traveling habits or 9:45 arrival time...
...when a man like J.P. Morgan could open his wallet and singlehandedly keep a floor under the market are probably gone forever. There has been some talk of a buying show of patriotism from investors and traders, but no one can say with any finality what the financial-services herd will do when it is released back into its natural environment. One thing is certain: This time, stability - or some semblance of it - will have to be a group effort...
...military establishment knew it couldn't plunk a herd of young men down in a foreign locale and expect them to act like saints. Yasutaka Oshiro, a sociology professor at Okinawa International University, has researched the history of the entertainment districts around the U.S. bases. "The zones were created by U.S. officials following World War II to counter the problem of U.S. troops raping local women with abandon," he explains. Poor unmarried local girls were corralled into prostitution. The sex market in a town called Koza outside the gates of Kadena Air Force Base roared during the Vietnam War, when...
...more and more people hit the road, there are fewer and fewer pioneers. Backpackers move as a herd, not unlike the package tourists they try to avoid. The overcrowding and bottlenecks are at their worst in Asia, the destination of choice since Wheeler and his wife Maureen released the first Lonely Planet book, Across Asia on the Cheap, in 1973. A well-worn trail links beaches in Goa (India), Boracay (Philippines), Bali (Indonesia) and southern Thailand and the peaks of Yangshuo (China) and Kathmandu (Nepal). In such numbers, backpackers can't help but trample culture and nature, whatever their environmental...
...military establishment knew it couldn't plunk a herd of young men in a foreign locale and expect them to act like saints. Yasutaka Oshiro, a sociology professor at Okinawa International University, has researched the history of the entertainment districts around the U.S. bases. "The zones were created by U.S. officials following World War II," he says, "to counter the problem of U.S. troops raping local women with abandon." Poor, unmarried local girls were corralled into prostitution. The sex market in a town called Koza outside the gates of Kadena Air Force Base roared during the Vietnam War, when thousands...