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...Chairman himself has been on a Long March for the past five years, and shows no signs of tiring. Bezos is pathologically happy and infectiously enthusiastic. Today's whistle-stop is typical. As usual he's smiling, shaking hands and shocking new employees with his distinctive laugh, a rapid honk that sounds like a flock of Canadian geese on nitrous oxide. He's an average-size man with thinning hair, warm brown eyes and a face that suggests Kevin Spacey with more than a hint of Frank Perdue. His uniform tends to be white or blue button-down shirts with...
...uncelled in the form of, well, secondhand noise. It makes me very tense to be around someone who's calling the office from the train when he should be napping like the rest of us. My blood pressure goes into the red zone when I hear a cell person honk, "Hello! Wha--? Hello! Are you there? Hello!" especially when I know good and well that they lost their connection five minutes ago, only they haven't shut up long enough to notice. I also find it mortifying when I'm trapped next to some cell guy who's talking...
...thought or knowledge; when a golfer in Maryland murdered a goose that had interfered with his game, the piece was my meat. I wrote the goose editorial on deadline, and rushing past Meg's desk, I shouted, "What should I call this?" Without looking up, she shot back, "'Honk If You Think He's Guilty...
Their cars, parked in the metered spaces on Mass. Ave., were plastered with posters proclaiming such slogans as "A Parking Space...Only Affordable Place?" and "Honk for Affordable Housing...
...aquifer containing the ore also supplies water to an estimated 10,000 people in and around Crownpoint, a town in which dusty yards are decorated with stripped-down car frames and visiting neighbors honk their horn rather than ring the doorbell. Less than 10% of the local Navajo stand to benefit directly from the mining leases, and many of the rest, conditioned by a history of false promises from outsiders, aren't buying Hydro Resources' assurances that their water will remain unpolluted by the mine...