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Word: rides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Calling the escort service is much like playing roulette. Sometimes your number really comes up--you get a sympathetic dispatcher, a short wait and a quick trip. Sometimes you break even with a 30-minute wait and a 20-minute ride...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill and Jeannette A. Vargas, S | Title: The Late-Night Transportation Game | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...long bus ride home for the Columbia men's basketball team last night...

Author: By Aimee C. Pease, | Title: M. Hoops Defeats Columbia | 3/6/1993 | See Source »

...interest or good of the country. Tough-talk doesn't necessarily mean giving up the results of these hard choices. Similarly, sacrifice shouldn't always mean equal treatment. It requires the bald-faced honesty to say to those who pollute or smoke or drink: Pay up. The free ride is over...

Author: By Dan E. Markel, | Title: The Soft Scourge of Sacrifice | 3/5/1993 | See Source »

...profit margin in the Square. There were very high rents throughout the 1980s. But the recession has claimed several victims in the last year, and the only shops that can afford to replace them in these tough times are national chains that can absorb a couple bad years and ride out the recession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Change | 3/3/1993 | See Source »

...home-use CD player in 1982, is counting on its new minidisc to win over people who use standard cassette tapes. "The MiniDisc is designed to replace the analog cassette," says Michael Vitelli of Sony. The key is recordability. By making its MiniDiscs recordable, Sony reasoned, the company could ride the coattails of the CD explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Digital Dilemma | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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