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...absurd to refuse to meet someone a hundred yards distance from a regular pickup point, when that person has explained that there is a clear danger in walking to the pickup point...
...supervisor returned my phone call that evening. He first said that I should have contacted the police (which I told him I'd done in the first place). He then remarked that the dispatcher should have directed me to wait at Holyoke Center, an additional pickup point. He also said that he would ask her to apologize to me. I replied that I did not want the dispatcher's apology, but rather I wanted a change in the policy about where people could be picked up. I pointed out the following...
...author does not argue that Tlingit culture before the coming of white men was noble (arguing is not his style), but clearly it was strong and coherent. Now in Angoon, after successive incursions by Russian fishermen, the Navy, Stateside Presbyterian missionaries of ineffable arrogance, and present-day loggers, pickup-truck sellers and fish-and-game regulators, it is weak and probably dying...
...shipping billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig. Others crave it, like former self-proclaimed billionaire Donald Trump. Sam Walton, who'd be the richest businessman in the world, Forbes says, if he hadn't divvied his $18.5 billion Wal-Mart stake among his family, is famous for his battered Ford pickup, while the late Bhagwan Rajneesh, who was blessed more richly with followers than cash or good tax advice, had 92 Rolls-Royces...
...daughter lived with an aunt while the two boys were sent to the well-tended home of their grandfather Myers Anderson. For the first time Thomas lived in a house with indoor plumbing. Anderson, who made a decent living selling ice and coal from the back of a pickup truck, could barely read but was a strong believer in education. He enrolled Thomas in a nearby school staffed by what white Catholics called "nigger nuns." They rode in the back of the bus with their students on field trips and rapped the palms of the children who did not hand...