Word: miles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Petersburg, he claimed to have rejected a $1 billion bribe from an Asian country to help it "get some islands." He also vowed that "barbarian peoples" in southern Russia would have their villages destroyed by napalm ... Sunday: He planned to take part in a vigorous 40-km (25-mile) cross-country skiing competition in Moscow...
Because my miles weren't accumulating fast enough, I began taking trips I didn't need, or routing myself from Los Angeles to New York City by way of Anchorage. If I went all around the world, I figured, I could earn a free ticket to Alpena. Then I acquired a credit card that would give me one mile for every dollar spent. The credit line was tiny, but the sense of possibility was enormous; why, if I just bought a car, a VCR, a computer, a fax machine and a washer-dryer set, I could go to State College...
...play my miles right, in fact, I need never leave the plane. As soon as I embark, I can buy things -- key chains, duty-free perfumes, souvenirs and razors -- and put them on my credit card. Then I can acquire more goods on the Airfone, charged to my special phone carrier. By the time I land, I might have earned enough miles to get the next leg free. I can even earn tickets while six miles high! (Vertical miles don't count, however, and horizontal ones are not what they seem: the Frequent Flyer is the only bird of prey...
...city's embryonic light-rail system, reported a tripling of morning passengers, from 10,000 to 30,000, on its four lines, and last week managed to retain 70% of the new ridership even after freeway detours began to reopen. The most popular by far was the 40-mile ride north to Santa Clarita, a new bedroom community cut off by the fractured Golden State Freeway; its daily ridership jumped from...
Such an emphasis on physical education clearly does not mean that 6400 students must descend on the Charles every morning for a 10-mile jog to the beat of cadences. Instead, students should be required to spend at least half their time at Harvard doing some sort of approved sport or physical activity of their own choosing...