Word: hubs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...uninitiated, George V. Higgins is a Boston lawyer and sometime journalist who writes a terrific novel about Boston every year or so. About tough guys in Boston, that is. There may be, somewhere in the Hub area, a Higgins test range where the writer holds trials for admission to his casts of characters. Harvard degree? Reject Dukakis bumper sticker? So long, Faneuil Hall regular? Next Higgins's novels, you see, deal exclusively with a social set in this area that has neither the inclination nor the ability to be anything other than what it is--the royalty of a seedy...
...Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped more than oil into the world economy during the 1970s. OPEC also poured billions of dollars that it collected from oil buyers into Western banks operating in the Euromarket, the hub of international finance. Those institutions then lent the funds to borrowers that ranged from Third World governments to multinational corporations. This so-called petrodollar recycling was a major source of cash for world money markets during the past decade...
...streets of Xian, the principal city in northwestern China, are a hub of activity. Young men and women, dressed in greys, greens, blues, and white, walk along the mud and brick sidewalks. An old woman toddles along on her small bound feet. People riding bicycles and pulling handdrawn carts fill the streets. An old man passes carrying a straw basket of produce on the back of his bicycle. Another man pulls concrete blocks in a hand-cart. Not permitted to own cars, individual Chinese haul everything from steel and logs to their crippled grandmothers by hand-cart and by bicycle...
When attached to the tire, the boot renders a car immobile by clamping onto the rim of the tire and locking it in place. The boot also covers the hub cap, thus preventing a motorist from merely taking off the locked tire...
...takes it in her hands, and studies what she drew: three children gathering rice in a field. A Khmer Rouge soldier has a rifle trained on them, "to keep them working." Off to the left of he picture is the device. It looks like a wheel with a hollow hub and spokes leading out to the rim. Or perhaps it is a doughnut with lines on it. Three extra lines extend from the outer rim at he bottom, giving the thing the appearance of an insect. At the top there is yet another line sticking out at an angle...