Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back to the pipes. They're really more fun than anything else. The only time I've ever wanted to actively tell someone else to shut up is when my upstairs neighbor developed a "U Can't Touch This" fetish. (Matherites get to know their neighbors' musical tastes pretty thoroughly and often do not react kindly--my Saturday Night Fever sesseions have gotten a few irate calls...
...refused. "My mom would get mad at me," he said. With a little encouragement from Klaric, the boy finally climbed out of his temporary fortress and sneaked out of the house through a side door, whispering all the while on a cordless phone. Did he know a neighbor who might be willing to walk through the house and check for an intruder? Klaric asked as the boy hugged the phone outside. He thought of a retired man. "Would you like to ask him?" Klaric coaxed gently, adding, "Call back and tell me what happened." A few minutes later...
...conflict escalated, the Azeris imposed a blockade on Armenia, cutting off oil and gas lines. A crucial gas pipeline in Georgia, the neighbor to the north -- where minority unrest also sputters unchecked -- was blown up this month for the third time, reducing the flow of gas to a trickle. Loans from Russia and some international aid that managed to bypass the blockade have saved Armenia from total collapse, but because of the power shortage only six of 400 factories are operating...
...empty and phones out of order in many neighborhoods, the locals have been arming themselves against the influx of thieves. Cynthia Hitt's husband bought her a .22-cal. pistol for Christmas; she bought him a .30-30 rifle. "What if something happens? You can't scream for a neighbor, and until recently there weren't any phones to call the cops," she says...
...underground economy. For the wealthy, that may mean employing a live-in nanny, but not withholding taxes or asking to see a green card. For the less well- off, it may come down to paying a teenager to baby-sit in the afternoons or slipping cash to a neighbor who watches the kids. Anyone lucky enough to have found someone caring, trustworthy and affordable is not going to let a few tax laws wreck the arrangement that makes family life possible...