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Donna Botti and her daughter Angela, 16, share those sentiments. On a recent Saturday evening as Angela was getting ready for a friend's sweet-16 party at a downtown Vegas club, she belatedly noticed the phrase "Parent Drop-off and Pickup Preferred" on her invitation. "How stupid is that? I have my own car," she scoffed. Although the festivities were supposed to end at 10 p.m., Angela had no intention of racing home in her shiny '05 Hyundai Tucson to make curfew. In fact, she and her parents said they were unaware that nighttime restrictions for teens existed until...
Thanks to aggressive redistricting in the 1990s and early 2000s, fewer than three dozen House seats are seriously in contention this election cycle, compared with more than 100 in 1994, the year Republicans swept to power with a 54-seat pickup in the House. Then there's what political pros call the ground game. For most of the 20th century, turning out voters on Election Day was the Democrats' strength. They had labor unions to supply workers for campaigns, make sure their voters had time off from their jobs to go to the polls and provide rides to get them...
...give or get a ride.The text message sent to participants provides the name of the person they will be carpooling with and the timing. The “rider” also receives information on the car picking them up, while the driver is given MapQuest directions to the pickup location. “The goal is really to provide a convenient and cost-effective alternative to the single-occupancy vehicle,” said Corker, who is also Project Manager of Loker Commons Planning and Program Development. While living in Seattle and working for Microsoft, Shiftan said he, like...
According to the Harvard Computer Services website, students who need to connect more than one computer to a jack can pickup mini-hubs at the Student Help Desk located in the basement of the Science Center. The hubs are free for the school year...
...blame all of Ford's woes on mishaps in Dearborn. Soaring gas prices are killing two of Ford's strongest segments: pickup trucks and SUVs. And like GM, Ford pays crippling "legacy" costs for retiree benefits. David Cole, head of the Center for Automotive Research, estimates that Ford's disadvantage against foreign automakers amounts to an average of $2,500 a vehicle--money that could otherwise go into features like armrests in base models, keeping Ford competitive. "When you're constrained by that level of difference," he says, "it compromises your ability to do things...