Word: lone
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...Rockies are especially fertile ground for a proliferation of workers who, like Tipple, are variously known as the telecommuters, the modem cowboys or, as Philip Burgess, president of the Denver think-tank Center for the New West, puts it, the "lone eagles." Burgess agrees that "what's happening in the Rockies is not unlike what happened in California in its golden years." But he emphasizes a big difference: "In the Rocky Mountain region, it's not taxi drivers anymore -- it's professional people who realize they can locate anywhere and live by their wits. Many were middle managers who were...
...Connell did not close the door on an endorsement of William H. Walsh, the lone non-CCA incumbent running for re-election who was not endorsed yesterday by the Alliance for Change...
...guilt by association than the giant superconducting supercollider particle accelerator, which has the misfortune to be in Texas, also home of the Johnson Space Center, a major space-station player. Some members of Congress have decided that having both projects is too much of a good thing for the Lone Star State. Three weeks ago, the House of Representatives voted to kill the supercollider. The Senate can still rescue the collider, as it did last year, and show that America still cares about something besides...
...still night is broken by a lone, hollow cry reverberating through the Yard. Soon, other voices join the chorus...
Stoneman thanked Kennedy for being the "outstanding, lone voice in the Senate for some of the most humanitarian policies in recent memory...