Word: metros
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...morning. New Orleans was hit hard early Monday as Gustav came ashore west of New Orleans over Terrebonne parish. By midday, however, the storm had taken a northwestern turn, which brought it closer to Baton Rouge than was predicted. Winds were gusting at more than 70 m.p.h. in the metro Baton Rouge area, where top local, state and federal officials - including Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, Senator David Vitter and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff - were hunkered down to monitor the storm...
...working in a decent place in a metro area, you may pull down in the $30,000 range. But I also know of waiters making poverty-level wages and some making between $80,000 and $100,000 a year. But most waiters don't have vacation, sick time, or health care...
During the European basketball championships last October, Spaniards exiting Madrid metro stations encountered Nike ads featuring Pau Gasol and his Spanish teammates with the caption: "Being Spanish is no longer an excuse, it's a responsibility." Spain played poorly in the final game, losing by a point to Russia. But that was a year ago. Today, as you tally up Gasol's appearance with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals in June, the Spanish soccer team's victory in the European Cup, Rafael Nadal's Wimbledon defeat of Roger Federer, and Carlos Sastre's triumph at the Tour...
...went to Moscow in 1995, four years after the fall of the Soviet Union and a year after Solzhenitsyn had returned from exile. By then I had read Gulag, and every time I walked through the Byelorusskaya metro station, I thought of the first chapter, in which he describes his arrival in Moscow in 1945, 11 days after he was arrested for criticizing Stalin in a letter. He is escorted by three intelligence officers, but "not one of the three knew the city," he writes, "and it was up to me to pick the shortest route to the prison...
...state with a tradition of making last-minute decisions. Both Obama and McCain are digging in early to persuade the state's struggling voters to take a chance on them in November. Until they decide, voters can agree on one cause to root for this fall. Billboards around the metro area advertise Lions season tickets for the recession-rate bargain price...